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confirm   (TTS Sound)

The verb confirm has 5 senses

• confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm -- (establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant")


• confirm, reassert -- (strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account")


• confirm -- (make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!")


• confirm -- (support a person for a position; "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense")


• confirm -- (administer the rite of confirmation to; "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith")