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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
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somehow

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Adverb
 : 
some=how

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adverbial somehow has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

somehowadv. 
     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.  [1913 Webster]
    " The indefiniteness of somehow is emphasized by the addition of or other."  [1913 Webster]
    "By their action upon one another they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length."  [1913 Webster]
    "Although youngest of the familly, he has somehow or other got the entire management of all the others."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

somehow, adv.
1 for some reason or other (somehow I never liked them).
2 in some unspecified or unknown way (he somehow dropped behind).
3 no matter how (must get it finished somehow).

THESAURUS

somehow

accidentally, after a fashion, anyhow, anyway, anywise, as it chanced, by a fluke, by accident, by chance, by good fortune, by hazard, by some means, casually, for some reason, fortuitously, in, in some way, incidentally, no matter how, perchance, somehow or other, someway, unpredictably

ROGET THESAURUS

somehow

Instrumentality

N instrumentality, aid, subservience, subserviency, mediation, intervention, medium, intermedium, vehicle, hand, agency, minister, handmaid, midwife, accoucheur, accoucheuse, obstetrician, gobetween, cat's-paw, stepping-stone, opener, key, master key, passkey, latchkey, open sesame, passport, passe-partout, safe-conduct, password, instrument, expedient, means, instrumental, useful, ministerial, subservient, mediatorial, intermediate, intervening, conducive, through, by, per, whereby, thereby, hereby, by the agency of, by dint of, by virtue of, in virtue of, through the medium of, along with, on the shoulders of, by means of, by the aid of, with the aid of, per fas et nefas, by fair means or foul, somehow, somehow or other, by hook or by crook.

Attribution

N attribution, theory, etiology, ascription, reference to, rationale, accounting for, palaetiology, imputation, derivation from, filiation, affiliation, pedigree, explanation, reason why, attributed, attributable, referable to, referrible to, due to, derivable from, owing to, putative, ecbatic, hence, thence, therefore, for, since, on account of, because, owing to, on that account, from this cause, from that cause, thanks to, forasmuch as, whence, propter hoc, why? wherefore? whence? how comes it, how is it, how happens it? how does it happen? in some way, in some such way, somehow, somehow or other, that is why, hinc illae lachrymae.

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