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Meaning of SOMEHOW

Pronunciation:  'sum`haw

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adv]  in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means; "they managed somehow"; "he expected somehow to discover a woman who would love him"; "he tried to make is someway acceptable"
  2. [adv]  for some unspecified reason; "It doesn't seem fair somehow"; "he had me dead to rights but somehow I got away with it"; "for some reason they didn't seem to match"
 
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 Synonyms: for some reason, in some manner, in some way, someway, someways
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Some"how`\, adv.
In one way or another; in some way not yet known or
designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done
somehow; he lives somehow.
      By their action upon one another they may be swelled
      somehow, so as to shorten the length.    --Cheyne.
Note: The indefiniteness of somehow is emphasized by the
      addition of or other.
            Although youngest of the familly, he has somehow
            or other got the entire management of all the
            others.                            --Sir W.
                                               Scott.
 

 

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