Definitions for establish

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establish es·tab·lish

Spelling: [ih-stab-lish]

IPA: /ɪˈstæb lɪʃ/

Establish is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 596 anagrams from letters in establish (abehilsst).

Definitions for establish

verb (used with object)

1. to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis:
2. to install or settle in a position, place, business, etc.:
3. to show to be valid or true; prove:
4. to cause to be accepted or recognized:
5. to bring about permanently:
6. to enact, appoint, or ordain for permanence, as a law; fix unalterably.
7. to make (a church) a national or state institution.
8. Cards. to obtain control of (a suit) so that one can win all the subsequent tricks in it.

Origin of establish

1325-75; Middle English establissen Middle French establiss-, extended stem of establir Latin stabilīre, akin to stabilis stable²

Examples for establish

With Mac and Jesse we wanted to establish a friendship that was mostly a product of their common situation and enclosed world.

He affected singularity, in order to establish his claims to genius.

The king set about punishing Marshal, opposing his attempts to establish his family in their lands in Ireland and Wales.

This must have been the case, though Keightley had failed to establish it.

He would fight this disease before it could establish a hold.

Besides, he did not care to establish any relations with the people in the house.

Passages taken at haphazard will suffice to establish my contention.

And she credits her mother for helping to establish who that woman was early on: independent, free, self-reliant.

They backed him when the Sandinistas tried to establish their own Cuban-inspired dictatorship.

Huckabee will also need to establish a reliable fundraising base, something that up until now has proved to be elusive.