ascertain
ascertain is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- 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; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal.
- verb. be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
"He verified that the valves were closed"
"See that the curtains are closed"
- verb. learn or discover with certainty
- verb. establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
"find the product of two numbers"
"The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
- verb. find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
"I want to see whether she speaks French"
"See whether it works"
Synonyms
assure, check, control, ensure, insure, see, determine, find, learn, watch
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ascertain:
cartesian, cartisane, craniates, sectarian
Common word forms
ascertains, ascertained, ascertainer, ascertaining, ascertainable, ascertainment
Words from these letters
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