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demostrar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • betray verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
  • demonstrate verb To show someone how to do something by performing it.
  • prove verb To show, by evidence or argument, that something is true.
  • show verb To let someone see something.
  • unmask verb To remove a mask, literally or figuratively, from someone.

Senses

demostrar is used for these senses in English:

  • betray (transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
  • demonstrate (transitive) To show how to use (something).
  • demonstrate To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
  • prove (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify.
  • put one's money where one's mouth is (idiomatic) To take an obvious stake in the truth of a claim that one is making.
  • show (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
  • unmask (transitive) To expose, or reveal the true character of someone.

betray — full definition

  1. verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
  2. verb To reveal something unintentionally.

demonstrate — full definition

  1. verb To show someone how to do something by performing it.
  2. verb To prove or make clear through evidence or example.
  3. verb To take part in a public protest.

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