confirm

confirm
confirmable, adj.confirmability, n.confirmer; Law, confirmor /kon'feuhr mawr", keuhn ferr"meuhr/, n.confirmingly, adv.
/keuhn ferrm"/, v.t.
1. to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
2. to acknowledge with definite assurance: Did the hotel confirm our room reservation?
3. to make valid or binding by some formal or legal act; sanction; ratify: to confirm a treaty; to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.
4. to make firm or more firm; add strength to; settle or establish firmly: Their support confirmed my determination to run for mayor.
5. to strengthen (a person) in habit, resolution, opinion, etc.: The accident confirmed him in his fear of driving.
6. to administer the religious rite of confirmation to.
[1250-1300; < L confirmare to strengthen, confirm (see CON-, FIRM1); r. ME confermen < OF < L, as above]
Syn. 1. prove, substantiate, authenticate, validate. 4. fix.
Ant. 1. disprove. 3. invalidate. 4. shake.

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