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Synonyms for confirm
kənˈfɜrmcon·firm

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Wiktionary3.6 / 9 votes

  1. confirmverb

    Antonyms:
    contradict, dispute, question, deny, disconfirm

  2. confirmverb

    Antonyms:
    disconfirm, contradict, question, dispute, deny

  3. confirmverb

    Antonyms:
    deny, contradict, question, disconfirm, dispute

  4. confirmverb

    Antonyms:
    question, dispute, deny, contradict, disconfirm

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. confirm

    Confirm (Latin con, together, and firmus, firm) is to add firmness or give stability to. Both confirm and corroborate presuppose something already existing to which the confirmation or corroboration is added. Testimony is corroborated by concurrent testimony or by circumstances; confirmed by established facts. That which is thoroughly proved is said to be established; so is that which is official and has adequate power behind it; as, the established government; the established church. The continents are fixed. A treaty is ratified; an appointment confirmed. An act is sanctioned by any person or authority that passes upon it approvingly. A statement is substantiated; a report confirmed; a controversy settled; the decision of a lower court sustained by a higher. Just government should be upheld. The beneficent results of Christianity confirm our faith in it as a divine revelation.

    Synonyms:
    assure, corroborate, establish, fix, prove, ratify, sanction, settle, strengthen, substantiate, sustain, uphold

    Antonyms:
    abrogate, annul, cancel, destroy, overthrow, shake, shatter, unsettle, upset, weaken

    Preposition:
    Confirm a statement by testimony; confirm a person in a belief.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. confirm

    Synonyms:
    strengthen, stabilitate, establish, substantiate, settle, prove, fix, perpetuate, sanction, corroborate, ratify

    Antonyms:
    weaken, shake, upset, cancel, abrogate, repeal, annul, confute, refute

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 2 votes

  1. confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirmverb

    establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

    "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"

    Synonyms:
    actualise, realise, abide, embody, verify, get, support, stomach, defend, plunk for, hold up, substantiate, keep going, actualize, back, have, avow, fend for, patronise, stick out, assert, back up, keep, digest, nurture, keep up, corroborate, endorse, validate, reassert, hold, bear out, incarnate, affirm, swan, subscribe, brook, indorse, body forth, tolerate, suffer, endure, stand, aver, maintain, prolong, nourish, sustain, realize, patronize, underpin, plump for, patronage, put up, swear, bear

  2. confirm, reassertverb

    strengthen or make more firm

    "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"

    Synonyms:
    support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborate

  3. confirmverb

    make more firm

    "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"

    Synonyms:
    support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborate

  4. confirmverb

    support a person for a position

    "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"

    Synonyms:
    support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborate

  5. confirmverb

    administer the rite of confirmation to

    "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"

    Synonyms:
    support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborate

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. confirmverb

    Synonyms:
    establish, fix, settle, assure, make firm

  2. confirmverb

    Synonyms:
    strengthen, add strength to

  3. confirmverb

    Synonyms:
    corroborate, substantiate, verify

  4. confirmverb

    Synonyms:
    ratify, sanction, bind

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 1 vote

  1. confirmverb

    Synonyms:
    ratify, verify, corroborate, substantiate

    Antonyms:
    abrogate

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How to use confirm in a sentence?

  1. Cardinals General Manager John Mozeliak:

    I can confirm he was on administrative leave and was terminated yesterday. I think, at this time, it's just best to understand it's an open investigation and any other comments are not in anybody's best interest.

  2. Scott Morrison:

    I can confirm that the individual who was taken into custody I have been advised is an Australian-born citizen, as family members with our New Zealand cousins today, we grieve, we are shocked, we are appalled, we are outraged, and we stand here and condemn absolutely the attack that occurred today by an extremist, right-wing, violent terrorist.

  3. Paddy Ankunda:

    We can now confirm he's the one and we can also confirm he's in our custody at our base in Obo, we think he was just tired of bush life and simply turned himself in.

  4. Ted Cruz:

    Despite Senate Democrats ’ best efforts to demagogue this nomination, they will be unsuccessful, as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I look forward to supporting Patrick Leahy nomination, and am confident that Senate Judiciary Committee will move swiftly to confirm Judge Kavanaugh in the coming months.

  5. Anthony Barbier:

    I can confirm that President Privert has signed the executive order appointing Fritz Alphonse Jean as prime minister.


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