establish

establish is a 9-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm. 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.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
2. adjective. To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
3. adjective. To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.
4. adjective. To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.
5. adjective. To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.
6. verb. use as a basis for; found on

   "base a claim on some observation"

   Synonyms: base, found, ground

7. verb. establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment

   "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"

   "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"

   Synonyms: demonstrate, prove, shew, show

8. verb. institute, enact, or establish

   "make laws"

   Synonyms: make

9. verb. place

   "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"

   Synonyms: instal, install

10. verb. set up or lay the groundwork for

    "establish a new department"

    Synonyms: constitute, found, institute, plant

11. verb. bring about

    "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth"

    Synonyms: give

12. verb. build or establish something abstract

    "build a reputation"

    Synonyms: build

13. verb. set up or found

    "She set up a literacy program"

    Synonyms: found, launch

Synonyms

base, found, ground, demonstrate, prove, shew, show, make, instal, install, constitute, institute, plant, give, build, launch

Common word forms

established, establisher, establishes, establishing, establishable, establishment

Words from these letters

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