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Synonyms for confirm
kənˈfɜrmcon·firm
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Wiktionary
confirmverb
Antonyms:
contradict, dispute, question, deny, disconfirmconfirmverb
Antonyms:
disconfirm, contradict, question, dispute, denyconfirmverb
Antonyms:
deny, contradict, question, disconfirm, disputeconfirmverb
Antonyms:
question, dispute, deny, contradict, disconfirm
English Synonyms and Antonyms
confirm
Confirm (Latin con, together, and firmus, firm) is to add firmness or give stability to. Both confirm and corroborate presuppose something already existing to which the confirmation or corroboration is added. Testimony is corroborated by concurrent testimony or by circumstances; confirmed by established facts. That which is thoroughly proved is said to be established; so is that which is official and has adequate power behind it; as, the established government; the established church. The continents are fixed. A treaty is ratified; an appointment confirmed. An act is sanctioned by any person or authority that passes upon it approvingly. A statement is substantiated; a report confirmed; a controversy settled; the decision of a lower court sustained by a higher. Just government should be upheld. The beneficent results of Christianity confirm our faith in it as a divine revelation.
Synonyms:
assure, corroborate, establish, fix, prove, ratify, sanction, settle, strengthen, substantiate, sustain, upholdAntonyms:
abrogate, annul, cancel, destroy, overthrow, shake, shatter, unsettle, upset, weakenPreposition:
Confirm a statement by testimony; confirm a person in a belief.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
confirm
Synonyms:
strengthen, stabilitate, establish, substantiate, settle, prove, fix, perpetuate, sanction, corroborate, ratifyAntonyms:
weaken, shake, upset, cancel, abrogate, repeal, annul, confute, refute
Princeton's WordNet
confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirmverb
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
"his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"
Synonyms:
actualise, realise, abide, embody, verify, get, support, stomach, defend, plunk for, hold up, substantiate, keep going, actualize, back, have, avow, fend for, patronise, stick out, assert, back up, keep, digest, nurture, keep up, corroborate, endorse, validate, reassert, hold, bear out, incarnate, affirm, swan, subscribe, brook, indorse, body forth, tolerate, suffer, endure, stand, aver, maintain, prolong, nourish, sustain, realize, patronize, underpin, plump for, patronage, put up, swear, bearconfirm, reassertverb
strengthen or make more firm
"The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"
Synonyms:
support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborateconfirmverb
make more firm
"Confirm thy soul in self-control!"
Synonyms:
support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborateconfirmverb
support a person for a position
"The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"
Synonyms:
support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborateconfirmverb
administer the rite of confirmation to
"the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"
Synonyms:
support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborate
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
confirmverb
confirmverb
Synonyms:
strengthen, add strength toconfirmverb
Synonyms:
corroborate, substantiate, verifyconfirmverb
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
confirmverb
Synonyms:
ratify, verify, corroborate, substantiateAntonyms:
abrogate
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "confirm":
confirms, confirmation, affirm, confirming, reaffirm, confirmed, assure, verify, assures, validate, affirms, corroborate, reconfirm, uphold, attest, ascertain, acknowledge, endorse, substantiate, reiterate, confirmatory, certify, assert, check
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Confirm
Confirm vs. Conform -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Confirm and Conform.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#26 | have | |
#77 | get | |
#103 | back | |
#148 | support | |
#272 | check | |
#656 | keep | |
#867 | subscribe | |
#1275 | hold | |
#1778 | stand | |
#2422 | maintain | |
#2464 | fix | |
#2490 | bear | |
#3085 | establish | |
#3358 | confirm | |
#4340 | prove | |
#4493 | confirmed | |
#4562 | digest | |
#4675 | verify | |
#4781 | realize | |
#5354 | confirmation | |
#6848 | suffer | |
#7231 | assure | |
#7738 | strengthen | |
#7739 | defend | |
#7838 | stomach | |
#8397 | acknowledge | |
#8623 | settle | |
#8863 | brook | |
#10368 | swan | |
#11256 | sustain | |
#12075 | endorse | |
#12106 | abide | |
#12122 | validate | |
#12748 | realise | |
#13093 | assert | |
#13593 | certify | |
#13628 | swear | |
#13726 | confirms | |
#16699 | confirming | |
#17899 | endure | |
#17963 | tolerate | |
#19474 | affirm | |
#19712 | sanction | |
#19866 | ascertain | |
#22440 | uphold | |
#22446 | nurture | |
#22711 | assures | |
#26330 | attest | |
#26436 | patronage | |
#32756 | prolong | |
#33232 | ratify | |
#33931 | affirms | |
#35678 | embody | |
#36637 | reiterate | |
#38147 | perpetuate | |
#38704 | nourish | |
#39205 | aver | |
#39584 | substantiate | |
#39842 | underpin | |
#40276 | incarnate | |
#43989 | reaffirm | |
#61378 | confirmatory | |
#65919 | corroborate | |
#77936 | patronize | |
#95293 | reconfirm | |
#98293 | reassert | |
#118551 | actualize | |
#170258 | avow | |
#216944 | patronise | |
#321924 | indorse |
How to use confirm in a sentence?
We confirm the attack on the village of Mabule by armed men we have identified as the ADF.
First they created a precedent out of thin air claiming that there could be no Supreme Court confirmations during a presidential year, then just days before the 2020 presidential election, they broke their own rule … in order to confirm Amy Coney Barrett.
We have seen these reports as well, however, I do not want to hasten to confirm anything before we study them in greater detail.
I’m sure that United Russia sets the highest bar for itself, which is to confirm its leadership position and to clinch a win at the elections.
We have been informed and can confirm that there has been a detention of a US citizen Saturday morning local, he was prevented from getting on the flight out of Pyongyang. We don't comment further than this.
Translations for confirm
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- أكد, تؤكدArabic
- потвърждавам, утвърждавам, подкрепямBulgarian
- potvrditCzech
- bekræfteDanish
- bestätigen, bekräftigenGerman
- konfirmiEsperanto
- confirmarSpanish
- vakuuttaa, vahvistaa, konfirmoidaFinnish
- confirmerFrench
- megerősít, bérmál, konfirmálHungarian
- verigarIdo
- fermaIcelandic
- cresimare, confermareItalian
- 確認Japanese
- bestätegenLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- whakaūMāori
- forsikre om, konfirmere, bekfrefte, stadfeste, bekrefteNorwegian
- beamen, bevestigenDutch
- konfirmere, stadfeste, bekrefteNorwegian Nynorsk
- bekrefteNorwegian
- bierzmować, potwierdzaćPolish
- firmar, confirmarPortuguese
- confirmaRomanian
- подтверди́ть, уси́ливать, уси́лить, подкрепи́ть, укрепи́ть, укрепля́ть, подтвержда́ть, подкрепля́тьRussian
- utvŕditi, krȉzmati, učvŕstiti, potvŕditiSerbo-Croatian
- bekräfta, försäkra, befästa, konfirmeraSwedish
- تصدیقUrdu
- 確認Chinese
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