Definitions for confirm

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confirm con·firm

Spelling: [kuh n-furm]

IPA: /kənˈfɜrm/

Confirm is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 164 anagrams from letters in confirm (cfimnor).

Definitions for confirm

verb (used with object)

1. to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify:
2. to acknowledge with definite assurance:
3. to make valid or binding by some formal or legal act; sanction; ratify:
4. to make firm or more firm; add strength to; settle or establish firmly:
5. to strengthen (a person) in habit, resolution, opinion, etc.:
6. to administer the religious rite of confirmation to.

Origin of confirm

1250-1300; Latin confirmāre to strengthen, confirm (see con-, firm¹); replacing Middle English confermen Old French Latin, as above

Examples for confirm

And if it be impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm our suspicion.

He could not have chosen a more opportune time to confirm his own undoing.

Prosecutor Alessandro Leopizzi wasted no time in repeating the transcript to ask Schettino to confirm his words.

Blood spatters on the pavement seem to confirm that he was moving toward Wilson when the instantly fatal shot was fired.

Percival read them all hungrily, disregarding those that did not confirm his own opinions.

Hagel declined to confirm or deny whether Baghdadi was, in fact, among the living.

DNA tests were used to confirm Albert's status as father in both cases, following protracted legal battles.

Just three Republicans out of 44 voted to confirm Hagel, himself a former GOP senator.

Heyward was not slow to confirm an opinion that was so favorable to his own pretensions.

But the lapse of a few months will confirm or dispel their fears.