ENGLISH: confirm - CREOLE: konfime



Overview of verb confirm



The verb confirm has 5 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)



1. (19) 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")

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

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

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

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

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