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con⋅firm

  [kuhn-furm]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
2. to acknowledge with definite assurance: Did the hotel confirm our room reservation?
3. to make valid or binding by some formal or legal act; sanction; ratify: to confirm a treaty; to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.
4. to make firm or more firm; add strength to; settle or establish firmly: Their support confirmed my determination to run for mayor.
5. to strengthen (a person) in habit, resolution, opinion, etc.: The accident confirmed him in his fear of driving.
6. to administer the religious rite of confirmation to.
Origin:
1250–1300; < L confirmāre to strengthen, confirm (see con-, firm 1 ); r. ME confermen < OF < L, as above

Related forms:
con⋅firm⋅a⋅ble, adjective
con⋅firm⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
con⋅firm⋅er; Law. con⋅fir⋅mor  [kon-fer-mawr, kuhn-fur-mer] , noun
con⋅firm⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. prove, substantiate, authenticate, validate. 4. fix.

Antonyms:
1. disprove. 3. invalidate. 4. shake.

con⋅firmed

  [kuhn-furmd]
–adjective
1. made certain as to truth, accuracy, validity, availability, etc.: confirmed reports of new fighting at the front; confirmed reservations on the three o'clock flight to Denver.
2. settled; ratified.
3. firmly established in a habit or condition; inveterate: a confirmed bachelor.
4. given additional determination; made resolute.
5. having received the religious rite of confirmation.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME confermyd. See confirm, -ed 2

Related forms:
con⋅firm⋅ed⋅ly  [kuhn-fuhr-mid-lee] , adverb
con⋅firm⋅ed⋅ness  [kuhn-fur-mid-nis, -furmd-] , noun
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Main Entry: con·firm
Function: transitive verb
1 a : to make valid by necessary formal approval confirmed by the court> b : to vote approval of <confirm a nomination>
2 : to give formal acknowledgment of receipt of
3 : to remove doubt about by authoritative act or indisputable fact confirming Capt. Brown's right to his cargo —W. G. Young>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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