confirm

Verbs

  • (v) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
    • his story confirmed my doubts
    • The evidence supports the defendant
    affirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain,
  • (v) strengthen or make more firm
    • The witnesses confirmed the victim's account
    reassert,
  • (v) make more firm
    • Confirm thy soul in self-control!
  • (v) support a person for a position
    • The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense
  • (v) administer the rite of confirmation to
    • the children were confirmed in their mother's faith

Synonyms

affirm corroborate substantiate support sustain reassert

Antonyms

negate contradict

Words of close approximity

confit
confide confine
confirmable confirmation confirmation hearing confirmative confirmatory confirmed confirming