Synonyms for prove
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1. prove

   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, confirm, corroborate, establish, fix, 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.

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1. prove

   Synonyms:
   try, assay, test, establish, demonstrate, ascertain, argue, show, confirm, examine, substantiate, make trial of, verify, ascertain

   Antonyms:
   pass, pretermit, misdemonstrate, misindicate, refute, disprove, contradict, disestablish, neutralize

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1. prove, turn out, turn upverb

   be shown or be found to be

   "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive"

   Synonyms:
   rise, dig up, leaven, try, boot out, show, testify, establish, uprise, rotate, test, evidence, try out, come on, cut, surface, get up, examine, arise, turf out, spread out, turn off, exclude, essay, raise, switch off, chuck out, shew, fold, excavate, turn out, demonstrate, splay, show up, turn up, locate, eject, come out, fold up, bear witness, bear

   Antonyms:
   confute, disprove

2. prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shewverb

   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:
   attest, express, rise, lay down, found, leaven, demo, try, exhibit, build, show, testify, establish, depict, install, test, evidence, try out, present, read, instal, point, examine, make, indicate, ground, record, picture, register, certify, usher, plant, give, designate, essay, raise, render, launch, evince, shew, institute, set up, turn out, demonstrate, manifest, show up, turn up, march, constitute, base, bear witness

   Antonyms:
   disprove, confute

3. testify, bear witness, prove, evidence, showverb

   provide evidence for

   "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"

   Synonyms:
   attest, express, rise, leaven, demo, try, exhibit, register, show, testify, establish, depict, test, evidence, try out, tell, present, read, point, examine, indicate, take the stand, record, picture, certify, usher, designate, essay, raise, render, evince, shew, turn out, demonstrate, manifest, show up, turn up, bear witness

   Antonyms:
   disprove, confute

4. proveverb

   prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof

   Synonyms:
   rise, examine, demonstrate, testify, essay, evidence, try out, try, test, bear witness, shew, turn up, establish, leaven, raise, turn out, show

   Antonyms:
   confute, disprove

5. test, prove, try, try out, examine, essayverb

   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:
   audition, rise, analyze, leaven, try, sample, show, testify, establish, test, evidence, try out, study, examine, see, seek, try on, probe, quiz, attempt, essay, raise, adjudicate, render, shew, judge, screen, taste, turn out, demonstrate, turn up, experiment, strain, analyse, stress, hear, canvass, assay, canvas, bear witness

   Antonyms:
   confute, disprove

6. rise, proveverb

   increase in volume

   "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"

   Synonyms:
   rise, stand up, climb up, show, testify, establish, uprise, test, evidence, try out, leaven, heighten, go up, rebel, surface, lift, examine, arise, spring up, come up, grow, originate, resurrect, ascend, develop, climb, essay, raise, try, get up, shew, move up, turn out, jump, demonstrate, turn up, rear, mount, rise up, wax, bear witness

   Antonyms:
   confute, disprove

7. raise, leaven, proveverb

   cause to puff up with a leaven

   "unleavened bread"

   Synonyms:
   kindle, farm, rise, put forward, leaven, set up, try, upgrade, try out, show, testify, provoke, elevate, kick upstairs, recruit, upraise, enkindle, establish, put up, heighten, stir, evidence, elicit, advance, conjure, lift, examine, fire, arouse, grow, bring up, conjure up, nurture, resurrect, levy, promote, erect, essay, call down, get up, produce, shew, call forth, invoke, turn out, demonstrate, raise, turn up, evoke, rear, parent, enhance, test, bear witness

   Antonyms:
   confute, disprove

8. proveverb

   take a trial impression of

   Synonyms:
   rise, examine, demonstrate, testify, essay, evidence, try out, try, test, bear witness, shew, turn up, establish, leaven, raise, turn out, show

   Antonyms:
   confute, disprove

9. proveverb

   obtain probate of

   "prove a will"

   Synonyms:
   rise, examine, demonstrate, testify, essay, evidence, try out, try, test, bear witness, shew, turn up, establish, leaven, raise, turn out, show

   Antonyms:
   confute, disprove

Matched Categories

1. • Authenticate
   • Be
   • Grow
   • Inform
   • Judge
   • Law
   • Mathematics
   • Print
   • Prove
   • Raise

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1. proveverb

   Synonyms:
   demonstrate, show, manifest, confirm, establish, evidence, evince, substantiate, verify, make good

2. proveverb

   Synonyms:
   try, test, examine, make trial of, put to the test, experiment upon, submit to the test or proof

3. proveverb

   Synonyms:
   turn out, be found to be

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1. proveverb

   Synonyms:
   verify, corroborate, substantiate, demonstrate

   Antonyms:
   disprove, refute

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1. List of paraphrases for "prove":

   demonstrate, show, proof, be, test, proves, substantiate, establish, evidence

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1. Mason Rudolph:

   All I want is a chance to compete to be the guy here, seems like that's more of a real possibility now more than ever … I'm ready to get the opportunity again to prove myself. I understand what I've put on tape in 2019, and up to this point, there's still question marks on my game, and I want to prove those people wrong. And I want to prove to myself and to my teammates. It's one day at a time.

2. Rick Rossein:

   If he could prove he was fired at least in part for filing a charge, he could prevail, if he made a complaint and he could prove he was fired for that charge – he has to prove Google was aware that he was filing this charge.

3. Harriet Martineau:

   We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

4. Albert Einstein:

   No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

5. Parker Conrad:

   When people ask me what I learned from my experience at SigFig, I always tell them that I didn’t really learn anything at all, except that failure sucks, and you never, ever want it to happen again, but also, it’s the kind of thing that gets you up in the morning. One of the things we talk about at Zenefits is that we want to hire people who have a chip on their shoulder—an intensity to prove they can accomplish something, or prove people who have doubted them wrong. I felt a lot like that myself when I started Zenefits. I needed to prove I could accomplish something—that I wasn’t a failure, even though it felt to me like I was. That’s how a lot of this stuff got started.