instantiate

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verb

1. represent by an instance
- This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect
• Derivationally related forms:
instance, instantiation
• Hypernyms:
represent
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
2. find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word)
- The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect
• Derivationally related forms:
instance, instantiation
• Hypernyms:
detect, observe, find, discover, notice
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s