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CONTRADISTINGUISH
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they contradistinguish ... he / she / it contradistinguishes
Past simple: contradistinguished
Past participle: contradistinguished
-ing form: contradistinguishing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Distinguish by contrasting qualities
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "contradistinguish" is one way to...):
differentiate; distinguish; secern; secernate; separate; severalise; severalize; tell; tell apart (mark as different)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
contradistinction (a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast)
