Synonyms for verify
ˈvɛr əˌfaɪver·i·fy

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1. verify

   Synonyms:
   establish, confirm, fulfill, authenticate, substantiate, identify, realize, test, warrant, demonstrate

   Antonyms:
   disestablish, subvert, fail, falsify, mistake, misrepresent, misstate, disappoint, misdemonstrate

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1. verifyverb

   confirm the truth of

   "Please verify that the doors are closed"; "verify a claim"

   Synonyms:
   avow, aver, swear, control, swan, affirm, assert

2. control, verifyverb

   check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard

   "Are you controlling for the temperature?"

   Synonyms:
   assure, ensure, ascertain, affirm, control, moderate, hold in, hold, manipulate, aver, assert, check, swan, keep in line, swear, operate, master, see to it, avow, command, insure, curb, see, contain

3. verifyverb

   attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition)

   Synonyms:
   avow, aver, swear, control, swan, affirm, assert

4. affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swearverb

   to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

   "Before God I swear I am innocent"

   Synonyms:
   vagabond, depose, put forward, ramble, support, range, trust, bank, stray, rove, roll, rely, say, cast, imprecate, avouch, insist, wander, control, corroborate, assert, confirm, affirm, swan, curse, blaspheme, tramp, avow, allege, asseverate, aver, maintain, drift, sustain, substantiate, depone, roam, swear, cuss

Matched Categories

1. • Confirm
   • Declare
   • Law
   • Science
   • Test

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1. second glance

   to check several times that something is correct

   to look over an essay, test or assignment to check if all the words are spelled correctly

   Submitted by acronimous on May 26, 2014  

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1. verifyverb

   Synonyms:
   authenticate, confirm, substantiate, corroborate, attest, prove true, establish the truth or correctness of, make good

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1. verifyverb

   Synonyms:
   corroborate, confirm, attest, authenticate, prove

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1. List of paraphrases for "verify":

   check, verifying, verification, ascertain, checking, confirm, verified, ensure, test, audit, inspect, monitor, checked, verifiable, determine, see, verifies, validate, examine

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How to use verify in a sentence?

1. Speaker Paul Ryan:

   This is a moment where it is better to be safe than sorry. So we think the prudent, the responsible thing is to take a pause in this particular aspect of this refugee program in order to verify that terrorists are not trying to infiltrate the refugee population.

2. Amar Singh:

   We should be calling them soon, we have to verify if they were gifts from people, and if so, who are the gifts from.

3. Stephanie McCloud:

   We don't care where you got your vaccine, as long as we can verify it through some combination of your vaccination card or the vaccine provider, you are more than eligible.

4. Labor Secretary Tom Perez:

   The best interest contract is...our Ronald Reagan provision in the rule, we want to trust and verify.

5. David Sengeh:

   Lack of identification, or an inability to verify that identification for credit purposes, increases the cost of business for everyone, a national platform ... means that companies, institutions, and whoever can verify that what I'm saying about my loan history is (true). Anyone can fake a drivers license, but not a system like this.