Confirm

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  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To support or establish the certainty or validity of; verify.
  • transitive verb. To reaffirm the establishment of (a reservation or advance arrangement).
  • transitive verb. To make firmer; strengthen.
  • transitive verb. To make valid or binding by a formal or legal act; ratify.
  • transitive verb. To administer the religious rite of confirmation to.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make firm, or more firm; add strength to; strengthen: as, one's resolution is confirmed by the approval of another.
  • To settle or establish; render fixed or secure.
  • To make certain or sure; give new assurance of truth or certainty to; put past doubt; verify.
  • To certify or give assurance to; inform positively.
  • To sanction; ratify; consummate; make valid or binding by some formal or legal act: as, to confirm an agreement, promise, covenant, or title.
  • To strengthen in resolution, purpose, or opinion; fortify.
  • Eccles., to admit to the full privileges of church-membership by the imposition of hands; administer the rite of confirmation to. See confirmation, 1 .
  • Synonyms Corroborate, substantiate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish.
  • transitive verb. To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
  • transitive verb. To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate.
  • transitive verb. To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify.
  • transitive verb. To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
  • verb. To confer the Christian sacrament of confirmation.
  • verb. To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. support a person for a position
  • verb. administer the rite of confirmation to
  • verb. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
  • verb. strengthen or make more firm
  • verb. make more firm
  • Word Usage
    "They were all the lords of fairly small districts (as you can confirm from the map of Gondor in the book), none much bigger than another, except for the large fief of Belfalas and the remote and thinly populated Anfalas, ‘the Langstrand far away’; and they all seemed to be tenants in chief of the Steward himself."
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    OK  approve  beef up  covenant  fortify  
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    Germ  Herm  affirm  berm  ferm  
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