Ascertain

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  • transitive verb. To discover with certainty, as through examination or experimentation. synonym: discover.
  • transitive verb. To make certain, definite, and precise.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make certain; determine; define or reduce to precision by removing doubt, obscurity, or ambiguity; establish; prove.
  • To find out by trial, examination, or experiment, so as to know as certain; acquire an accurate knowledge of: as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity or the purity of a metal.
  • To make sure of; insure.
  • To make certain or sure; certify; assure; inform.
  • To establish with certainty; render invariable, or not subject to caprice; fix.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
  • transitive verb. To make (a thing) certain to the mind; to free from obscurity, doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine.
  • transitive verb. To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
  • verb. establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
  • verb. be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
  • verb. learn or discover with certainty
  • Word Usage
    "I was able to ascertain from the News forum that there's at least one Telcel shop in Alamos."
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    Alane  Aquitaine  Ayn  Bahrain  Biscayne  
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