Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
- 2transitive verb
To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
- 3transitive verb
To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5transitive verb
To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
- 6verb
make more firm
"Confirm thy soul in self-control!"
- 7verb
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
"his story confirmed my doubts"
"The evidence supports the defendant"
- 8verb
strengthen or make more firm
"The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"
Synonyms
- 9verb
administer the rite of confirmation to
"the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"
- 10verb
support a person for a position
"The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"
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