confirm

confirm is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
2. transitive verb. To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
3. transitive verb. To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
4. transitive verb. To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.
5. transitive verb. To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
6. verb. make more firm

   "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"

7. verb. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

   "his story confirmed my doubts"

   "The evidence supports the defendant"

   Synonyms: affirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain

8. verb. strengthen or make more firm

   "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"

   Synonyms: reassert

9. verb. administer the rite of confirmation to

   "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"

10. verb. support a person for a position

    "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"

Synonyms

affirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain, reassert

Common word forms

confirms, confirmed, confirmer, confirming, confirmity, confirmable, confirmment

Words from these letters

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