REASON OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reason out mean? 

• REASON OUT (verb)
  The verb REASON OUT has 1 sense:

1. decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion

  Familiarity information: REASON OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REASON OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

conclude; reason; reason out

Context example:

We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house

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

 Context examples 

I, too, was busy, trying to reason out how he was aware of the existence of so intangible a thing as a shadow.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)