What is another word for confirm?
Synonyms for confirm
kənˈfɜrmcon·firm
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Wiktionary
confirmverb
Antonyms:
contradict, dispute, question, deny, disconfirmconfirmverb
Antonyms:
disconfirm, contradict, question, dispute, denyconfirmverb
Antonyms:
deny, contradict, question, disconfirm, disputeconfirmverb
Antonyms:
question, dispute, deny, contradict, disconfirm
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, upholdAntonyms:
abrogate, annul, cancel, destroy, overthrow, shake, shatter, unsettle, upset, weakenPreposition:
Confirm a statement by testimony; confirm a person in a belief.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
confirm
Synonyms:
strengthen, stabilitate, establish, substantiate, settle, prove, fix, perpetuate, sanction, corroborate, ratifyAntonyms:
weaken, shake, upset, cancel, abrogate, repeal, annul, confute, refute
Princeton's WordNet
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, bearconfirm, reassertverb
strengthen or make more firm
"The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"
Synonyms:
support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborateconfirmverb
make more firm
"Confirm thy soul in self-control!"
Synonyms:
support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborateconfirmverb
support a person for a position
"The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"
Synonyms:
support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborateconfirmverb
administer the rite of confirmation to
"the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"
Synonyms:
support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborate
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
confirmverb
confirmverb
Synonyms:
strengthen, add strength toconfirmverb
Synonyms:
corroborate, substantiate, verifyconfirmverb
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
confirmverb
Synonyms:
ratify, verify, corroborate, substantiateAntonyms:
abrogate
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "confirm":
confirms, confirmation, affirm, confirming, reaffirm, confirmed, assure, verify, assures, validate, affirms, corroborate, reconfirm, uphold, attest, ascertain, acknowledge, endorse, substantiate, reiterate, confirmatory, certify, assert, check
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Confirm
Confirm vs. Conform -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Confirm and Conform.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#26 | have | |
#77 | get | |
#103 | back | |
#148 | support | |
#272 | check | |
#656 | keep | |
#867 | subscribe | |
#1275 | hold | |
#1778 | stand | |
#2422 | maintain | |
#2464 | fix | |
#2490 | bear | |
#3085 | establish | |
#3358 | confirm | |
#4340 | prove | |
#4493 | confirmed | |
#4562 | digest | |
#4675 | verify | |
#4781 | realize | |
#5354 | confirmation | |
#6848 | suffer | |
#7231 | assure | |
#7738 | strengthen | |
#7739 | defend | |
#7838 | stomach | |
#8397 | acknowledge | |
#8623 | settle | |
#8863 | brook | |
#10368 | swan | |
#11256 | sustain | |
#12075 | endorse | |
#12106 | abide | |
#12122 | validate | |
#12748 | realise | |
#13093 | assert | |
#13593 | certify | |
#13628 | swear | |
#13726 | confirms | |
#16699 | confirming | |
#17899 | endure | |
#17963 | tolerate | |
#19474 | affirm | |
#19712 | sanction | |
#19866 | ascertain | |
#22440 | uphold | |
#22446 | nurture | |
#22711 | assures | |
#26330 | attest | |
#26436 | patronage | |
#32756 | prolong | |
#33232 | ratify | |
#33931 | affirms | |
#35678 | embody | |
#36637 | reiterate | |
#38147 | perpetuate | |
#38704 | nourish | |
#39205 | aver | |
#39584 | substantiate | |
#39842 | underpin | |
#40276 | incarnate | |
#43989 | reaffirm | |
#61378 | confirmatory | |
#65919 | corroborate | |
#77936 | patronize | |
#95293 | reconfirm | |
#98293 | reassert | |
#118551 | actualize | |
#170258 | avow | |
#216944 | patronise | |
#321924 | indorse |
How to use confirm in a sentence?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I can confirm that President Privert has signed the executive order appointing Fritz Alphonse Jean as prime minister.
Translations for confirm
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- أكد, تؤكدArabic
- потвърждавам, утвърждавам, подкрепямBulgarian
- potvrditCzech
- bekræfteDanish
- bestätigen, bekräftigenGerman
- konfirmiEsperanto
- confirmarSpanish
- vakuuttaa, vahvistaa, konfirmoidaFinnish
- confirmerFrench
- megerősít, bérmál, konfirmálHungarian
- verigarIdo
- fermaIcelandic
- cresimare, confermareItalian
- 確認Japanese
- bestätegenLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- whakaūMāori
- forsikre om, konfirmere, bekfrefte, stadfeste, bekrefteNorwegian
- beamen, bevestigenDutch
- konfirmere, stadfeste, bekrefteNorwegian Nynorsk
- bekrefteNorwegian
- bierzmować, potwierdzaćPolish
- firmar, confirmarPortuguese
- confirmaRomanian
- подтверди́ть, уси́ливать, уси́лить, подкрепи́ть, укрепи́ть, укрепля́ть, подтвержда́ть, подкрепля́тьRussian
- utvŕditi, krȉzmati, učvŕstiti, potvŕditiSerbo-Croatian
- bekräfta, försäkra, befästa, konfirmeraSwedish
- تصدیقUrdu
- 確認Chinese
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