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Synonyms for prove
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Princeton's WordNet
prove, turn out, turn up(verb)
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, bearprove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew(verb)
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"
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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 witnesstestify, bear witness, prove, evidence, show(verb)
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 witnessprove(verb)
prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
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rise, examine, demonstrate, testify, essay, evidence, try out, try, test, bear witness, shew, turn up, establish, leaven, raise, turn out, showtest, prove, try, try out, examine, essay(verb)
put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
"This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"
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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 witnessrise, prove(verb)
increase in volume
"the dough rose slowly in the warm room"
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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 witnessraise, leaven, prove(verb)
cause to puff up with a leaven
"unleavened bread"
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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 witnessprove(verb)
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, showprove(verb)
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
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, 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
prove
Synonyms:
try, assay, test, establish, demonstrate, ascertain, argue, show, confirm, examine, substantiate, make trial of, verify, ascertainAntonyms:
pass, pretermit, misdemonstrate, misindicate, refute, disprove, contradict, disestablish, neutralize
Dictionary of English Synonymes
prove(v. a.)
Synonyms:
demonstrate, show, manifest, confirm, establish, evidence, evince, substantiate, verify, make goodprove(v. a.)
Synonyms:
try, test, examine, make trial of, put to the test, experiment upon, submit to the test or proofprove(v. n.)
Synonyms:
turn out, be found to be
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
prove(v)
Synonyms:
verify, corroborate, substantiate, demonstrate
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "prove":
demonstrate, show, proof, be, test, proves, substantiate, establish, evidence
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How to use prove in a sentence?
It is extremely easy to obtain a casino license in Local NGO Mother Nature Cambodia, to get one, all you need is to prove you have a parcel of land and to pay an application fee to the Cambodian ministry of finance, which is in charge of overseeing casinos.
The (SNP's) argument isn't just 'we don't like cuts', but that 'if you give us power we can run things better and prove that you don't have to do cuts'.
Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.
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.
India will have to be original, innovative, to get investors interested this time. We have to prove that we're different.
Translations for prove
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- bewysAfrikaans
- أثبت, إثباتArabic
- প্রমাণ করাBengali
- dokázat, prokázat, ukázatCzech
- beweisen, prüfen, sich zeigen, sich herausstellenGerman
- αποδεικνύωGreek
- pruviEsperanto
- probar, testear, validarSpanish
- tõestamaEstonian
- näyttää toteen, paljastua, todistaa, osoittautuaFinnish
- prouverFrench
- bizonyítHungarian
- ապացուցելArmenian
- buktiIndonesian
- verigarIdo
- לְהוֹכִיחַHebrew
- 証明するJapanese
- proboLatin
- blijken, uitwijzenDutch
- udowadniać, dowodzić, dowieśćPolish
- provarPortuguese
- dovedi, stabili, proba, arătaRomanian
- доказа́ть, ока́зываться, оказа́ться, дока́зыватьRussian
- proare, probare, proai, provai, provareSardinian
- dokazati, izkazati seSlovene
- visa, bevisaSwedish
- hakikiSwahili
- 證明Chinese
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