(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If something ~s an attitude or situation, it shows that the attitude or situation exists or it shows what it is like.
The Los Angeles riots ~ed the bitterness between the black and Korean communities in the city...
= show
VERB: V n
2.
When light, heat or other rays ~ off a surface or when a surface ~s them, they are sent back from the surface and do not pass through it.
The sun ~ed off the snow-covered mountains...
The glass appears to ~ light naturally.
VERB: V prep, V n
3.
When something is ~ed in a mirror or in water, you can see its image in the mirror or in the water.
His image seemed to be ~ed many times in the mirror.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
4.
When you ~ on something, you think deeply about it.
We should all give ourselves time to ~...
I ~ed on the child’s future.
VERB: V, V on/upon n
5.
You can use ~ to indicate that a particular thought occurs to someone.
Things were very much changed since before the war, he ~ed.
VERB: V that
6.
If an action or situation ~s in a particular way on someone or something, it gives people a good or bad impression of them.
The affair hardly ~ed well on the British...
Your own personal behavior as a teacher, outside of school hours, ~s on the school itself.
VERB: V adv on n, V on n