prove

prove is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.
2. transitive verb. To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
3. transitive verb. To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
4. transitive verb. To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
5. transitive verb. To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.
6. transitive verb. To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.
7. intransitive verb. To make trial; to essay.
8. intransitive verb. To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.
9. intransitive verb. To succeed; to turn out as expected.
10. 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, establish, shew, show

11. verb. prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
12. verb. obtain probate of

    "prove a will"

13. verb. provide evidence for

    "The blood test showed that he was the father"

    "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"

    Synonyms: evidence, show, testify

14. verb. take a trial impression of
15. verb. cause to puff up with a leaven

    "unleavened bread"

    Synonyms: leaven, raise

16. verb. increase in volume

    "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"

    Synonyms: rise

17. verb. put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to

    "This approach has been tried with good results"

    "Test this recipe"

    Synonyms: essay, examine, test, try

18. verb. be shown or be found to be

    "She proved to be right"

    "The medicine turned out to save her life"

Synonyms

demonstrate, establish, shew, show, evidence, testify, leaven, raise, rise, essay, examine, test, try

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in prove:

pervo

Common word forms

proved, prover, proves, proving

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