Prove

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To establish the truth or validity of (something) by the presentation of argument or evidence.
  • intransitive verb. To demonstrate the reality of (something).
  • intransitive verb. To show (oneself) to be what is specified or to have a certain characteristic.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To establish by the required amount of evidence.
  • intransitive verb. To establish the authenticity of (a will).
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To demonstrate the validity of (a hypothesis or proposition).
  • intransitive verb. To verify (the result of a calculation).
  • intransitive verb. To subject (a gun, for instance) to a test.
  • intransitive verb. To make a sample impression of (type); proof.
  • intransitive verb. To find out or learn (something) through experience.
  • intransitive verb. To be shown to be such; turn out.
  • phrasal verb. To turn out well; succeed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To try by experiment, or by a test or standard; test; make trial of; put to the test: as, to prove the strength of gunpowder; to prove the contents of a vessel by comparing it with a standard measure.
  • To render certain; put out of doubt (as a proposition) by adducing evidence and argumentation; show; demonstrate.
  • To establish the authenticity or validity of; obtain probate of: as, to prove a will. See probate.
  • To have personal experience of; experience; enjoy or suffer.
  • In arithmetic, to ascertain or demonstrate the correctness of (an operation or result) by a calculation in the nature of a check: as, to prove a sum.
  • In printing, to take a proof of.
  • Synonyms To verify, justify, confirm, substantiate, make good, manifest.
  • To make trial; essay.
  • To be found or ascertained to be by experience or trial; be ascertained or shown by the event or something subsequent; turn out to be: as, the report proves to be true; to prove useful or wholesome; to prove faithful or treacherous.
  • Hence To become; be.
  • To succeed; turn out well.
  • To thrive; be with young: generally said of cattle.
  • noun. An obsolete form of proof.
  • In homeopathic practice, to test the therapeutic action of (a drug) by observing the symptoms following its administration in appreciable amounts to persons in health.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To make trial; to essay.
  • intransitive verb. To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be
  • intransitive verb. To succeed; to turn out as expected.
  • transitive verb. To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test
  • transitive verb. To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
  • transitive verb. To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
  • transitive verb. To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
  • transitive verb. To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.
  • transitive verb. To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Simple past of proove.
  • verb. To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
  • verb. To turn out; to manifest.
  • verb. To turn out to be.
  • verb. To put to the test, to make trial of.
  • verb. To experience
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. increase in volume
  • verb. be shown or be found to be
  • verb. obtain probate of
  • verb. prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
  • verb. cause to puff up with a leaven
  • verb. provide evidence for
  • Word Usage
    "They write letters to prove that they "don't count," and they _prove it_. '"
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