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REASON OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion
Example:
We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "reason out" is one way to...):
cerebrate; cogitate; think (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reason out"):
induce (reason or establish by induction)
deduce; deduct; derive; infer (reason by deduction; establish by deduction)
syllogise; syllogize (reason by syllogisms)
feel; find (come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds)
deduce; infer (conclude by reasoning; in logic)
gather (conclude from evidence)
extrapolate; generalise; generalize; infer (draw from specific cases for more general cases)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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