Definition of "shewed" [shewed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of shew. (verb)

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• "The slangy term shewed the speaker's desire to get rid of his own feelings."
• "But my imagination, like Elstir engaged upon rendering some effect of perspective without reference to a knowledge of the laws of nature which he might quite well possess, depicted for me not what I knew but what it saw; what it saw, that is to say what the name shewed it."
• "Various coins shewed through the gold meshes of the one; the Russia leather of the other told no tales."