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verb (used with object), -dat·ed, -dat·ing.

to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.

to give legal force to; legalize.

to give official sanction, confirmation, or approval to, as elected officials, election procedures, documents, etc.: to validate a passport.

Origin:
1640–50; < Medieval Latin validātus (past participle of validāre to make valid), equivalent to valid- (see valid) + -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

val·i·da·tion, noun

val·i·da·tor, noun

val·i·da·to·ry

[val-i-duh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , adjective

non·val·i·da·tion, noun

re·val·i·date, verb (used with object), -dat·ed, -dat·ing.

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re·val·i·da·tion, noun

un·val·i·dat·ed, adjective

un·val·i·dat·ing, adjective

COLLAPSE

Synonyms
1. authenticate, verify, prove.

Antonyms
1. disprove.

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Many people who had bought cars illegally are scrambling to validate the trade.

The public looks to the nation's past to validate its core ideals and affirm a record of progress and accomplishment.

Claims that run against the profession's previous findings are subject to more scrutiny than those that validate them.

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Many people who had bought cars illegally are scrambling to validate the trade.

The public looks to the nation's past to validate its core ideals and affirm a record of progress and accomplishment.

Claims that run against the profession's previous findings are subject to more scrutiny than those that validate them.

Buy tickets at any station and validate before boarding.

Too often in experimental psychology the results merely serve to validate a hunch rather than prove a relationship.

I'll validate your fears and probably make you laugh.

Donna was patient and used her own market to test and validate her products before she expanded.

The receptionist finds her stamp to validate the visitors' parking tickets.

We will of course see efforts in the opposite direction, only to become the exceptions that validate the rule.

My goal was to connect with people who are suffering, to acknowledge and validate their struggle.

There are many variables to be considered before one can validate this hypothesis.

Some audio forensic examiners go to extraordinary lengths to validate recordings.

Very clean books and records with tax returns to validate income.

They should be used to validate the school's grades.

They say that this arguments does not validate the evil racial discrimination of affirmative action.

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Abusive parents validate child sacrifice to build empires.

History has proved us capable of not only understanding the details, but using them to validate or disprove deep theories.

The division's membership should value any study to validate these fundamental principles.

There is far too little statistical evidence to validate these.

The field research will validate or improve this model.

Some journals and press releases also use science to validate their political views.

The media establishment reports on itself to validate its influence.

Ample data going back a decade or more validate the views expressed here.

Models are used to predict lots of things and the usual practice is to validate the model.

As the science becomes more abstract it is difficult to validate.

The city even runs ad campaigns to validate it as a place to live.

Please stop trying to validate her publication record.

The bombs discovered in the holds of two cargo planes earlier this week validate the first of these worries.

When you critique reason with sub-reason it seems to validate reason.

The comments to this article seem to validate the need for this article in the first place.

The problem is that the structure of some programmes serves to validate their narcissism.

But then, even if science did start in somebody's church, that certainly doesn't validate that church in any way.

Don't validate any performance which is less than perfect.

The recommendation is to plant questions in the survey that can be used to score attention and validate results.

The power to validate requires a measure of credibility and commitment.

Churches are for people who want to be shielded from reality in order to validate their particular world view.

But you should verify and validate the end products of their promises.

It's become a liability for the environmental movement, which has plenty of other reasons to validate itself.

What is comforting about these stereotypes is that they validate our own often unspectacular high school careers.

Hauser's studies that appeared to validate his original findings.

It is an attempt to validate the double genocide line whose purpose is to minimise the real genocide.

Shulenberger said the study was important to validate the accountability system's allowing three different tests.

Faris needed an explanation to validate his request.

Consultants can validate our own opinions and offer fresh perspectives.

Purchase tickets on the train platform and validate before boarding.

If they calculate the same speed over these different distances they validate the results.

The drawback to this solution is that current routers lack the memory and processing power to generate and validate signatures.

Retailers carefully calculate how many of the deep-discount coupons they can validate and still make.

And people don't have to be your clone to validate your sacrifice.

No contemporaneous texts exist to validate their claims.

Two prototypes coming in the relatively near future will hopefully validate the simulations.

McNeill's students had on the state test validate her approach.

Even if some studies exist by others, you could still do yours to validate them.

As if it would validate something within themselves.

When poly or poly-curious people stumble across the polyamorous lexicon, the discovery can help validate their worldview.

If it fails, it will validate critics who think it a scandal the experiment was ever approved.

To propagandize lies and distortions successfully to a citizenry does not validate the lies and distortions.

We primarily depend on computer models for our projections but have not been able to validate them.

User interaction such as pushing and tilting the capsule to validate behavior.

The therapist's job is not to comfort and validate the patient's excesses and consumption.

The challenge is to figure out how to manage and validate ideas-without the logical proofs that mathematicians use.

The publication of findings does not necessarily scientifically validate a study.

Participate in release activities to validate successful deployment of software into production systems.

Arcel's approach was to validate his fighters by being involved in every facet of their hard profession.

And it becomes frustrating to government bureaucrats who want a simple measure to validate the distribution of public money.

Their first design was simply a kite, used to validate the overall design.

People want to validate their opinions and debate what they saw.

If all such groups do for you is give you a safe space to talk and to validate your feelings, that's a lot.

And it is especially at this time you need your friends to validate and resonate with your loss.

No one's forcing you to use this pill, so quit trying to validate your choice by scaring others into following suit.

The top court's ruling, however, did validate the principle that creditors can contest safeguard procedures.

Its aim was to validate basic calculations on a small scale.

But he sees his route as one that allows him to validate not only his own life but also that of his father.

OP you clearly only created this thread in an attempt to validate your desire to treat this woman poorly.

There is no objective diagnostic testing for any mental malfunction to validate as to whether or not such a disease is present.

Ahmadinejad often seems to validate the comparison by playing to the anti-Semitic gallery.

Science is merely another authority sometimes invoked to validate personal prejudice.

It's about a reviewer's responsibility to validate an author's writings.

Toaster ovens can validate our feelings about kitchens and offer fresh perspectives.

There are many ways by which they can validate and check the quality of work and perform consistency checks online.

The paradox of course is that paying someone to validate you socially does not actually confer any such validation.

They want me to confirm their prejudices and uninformed beliefs and validate their desire to find someone to punish.

But scientists have not been able to validate any such reasons for the current warming trend, despite exhaustive efforts.

So lets validate their prophecies by our selfish negligence of mother earths natural resources and life.

Extending those would help validate more of the chip and/or motherboard.

Sometimes the purpose of research is to help point the direction for new research and not to validate a particular theory.

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World English Dictionary

validate (ˈvælɪˌdeɪt)

—vb
1.	to confirm or corroborate
2.	to give legal force or official confirmation to; declare legally valid

vali'dation

—n

'validatory

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

validate

1640s, from L. validatus, from validus (see valid). Related: Validated.

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