EXEMPLIFY (exemplified)

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Irregular inflected form: exemplified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does exemplify mean? 

• EXEMPLIFY (verb)
  The verb EXEMPLIFY has 2 senses:

1. be characteristic of

2. clarify by giving an example of

  Familiarity information: EXEMPLIFY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXEMPLIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they exemplify    ... he / she / it exemplifies   
Past simple: exemplified   
Past participle: exemplified   
-ing form: exemplifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be characteristic of

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

exemplify; represent

Context example:

This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue

Hypernyms (to "exemplify" is one way to...):

be; embody; personify (represent, as of a character on stage)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

example (an item of information that is typical of a class or group)

example (a representative form or pattern)

exemplification (a representational or typifying form or model)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Clarify by giving an example of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

exemplify; illustrate; instance

Hypernyms (to "exemplify" is one way to...):

dilate; elaborate; enlarge; expand; expatiate; exposit; expound; flesh out; lucubrate (add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

example (an item of information that is typical of a class or group)

example (something to be imitated)

example (a representative form or pattern)

example (an occurrence of something)

exemplification (showing by example)

 Context examples 

The role of steroid receptors in chromatin remodeling and transcription is exemplified by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-mediated transactivation of the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) promoter.

(hSWI-SNF Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Besides being beautiful, W40 exemplifies how the formation of stars results in the destruction of the very clouds that helped create them.

('Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars, NASA)

One of the uses for this genetic map is to identify particular biological pathways that cause disease, exemplified in the paper by pinpointing specific pathways that lead to Crohn’s disease and eczema.

(Scientists create ‘genetic atlas’ of proteins in human blood, University of Cambridge)

Here is a nut, said he, catching one down from an upper bough, to exemplify: a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Waldron was a strict disciplinarian with a gift of acid humor, as exemplified upon the gentleman with the red tie, which made it perilous to interrupt him.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of causation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me—a light so brilliant and wondrous, yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immensity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius who had directed their inquiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)