Dictionary Entry
affirm
affirm is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
- 2transitive verb
To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny.
- 3transitive verb
To declare, as a fact, solemnly, under judicial sanction. See Affirmation, 4.
- 4intransitive verb
To declare or assert positively.
- 5intransitive verb
To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation.
- 6verb
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
"his story confirmed my doubts"
"The evidence supports the defendant"
- 7verb
to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
"Before God I swear I am innocent"
- 8verb
say yes to
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