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Synonyms for confirm
kənˈfɜrmcon·firm

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Wiktionary3.6 / 9 votes

  1. confirmverb

    Antonyms:
    contradict, dispute, question, deny, disconfirm

  2. confirmverb

    Antonyms:
    disconfirm, contradict, question, dispute, deny

  3. confirmverb

    Antonyms:
    deny, contradict, question, disconfirm, dispute

  4. confirmverb

    Antonyms:
    question, dispute, deny, contradict, disconfirm

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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, uphold

    Antonyms:
    abrogate, annul, cancel, destroy, overthrow, shake, shatter, unsettle, upset, weaken

    Preposition:
    Confirm a statement by testimony; confirm a person in a belief.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. confirm

    Synonyms:
    strengthen, stabilitate, establish, substantiate, settle, prove, fix, perpetuate, sanction, corroborate, ratify

    Antonyms:
    weaken, shake, upset, cancel, abrogate, repeal, annul, confute, refute

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 2 votes

  1. 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, bear

  2. confirm, reassertverb

    strengthen or make more firm

    "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"

    Synonyms:
    support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborate

  3. confirmverb

    make more firm

    "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"

    Synonyms:
    support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborate

  4. confirmverb

    support a person for a position

    "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"

    Synonyms:
    support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborate

  5. confirmverb

    administer the rite of confirmation to

    "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"

    Synonyms:
    support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborate

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. confirmverb

    Synonyms:
    establish, fix, settle, assure, make firm

  2. confirmverb

    Synonyms:
    strengthen, add strength to

  3. confirmverb

    Synonyms:
    corroborate, substantiate, verify

  4. confirmverb

    Synonyms:
    ratify, sanction, bind

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 1 vote

  1. confirmverb

    Synonyms:
    ratify, verify, corroborate, substantiate

    Antonyms:
    abrogate

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How to use confirm in a sentence?

  1. Mufti Mahmud Khan:

    We are investigating whether they were mobilizing funds for militant activities in Bangladesh and or planning to carry out destructive action in the country, we will be able to confirm only after completion of interrogation.

  2. Erin Fox:

    We get reports from pharmacies and we've been able to confirm with the suppliers that they are on back order.

  3. Major Filemon Tan:

    I can confirm 18 soldiers were killed and 53 were wounded.

  4. Public Safety Sgt. Steven Blanco:

    We will not be releasing the names and numbers of those deceased as we work with the university to confirm and further the investigation at this time.

  5. Mike Sarafin:

    We had a plan going into the August 29th launch attempt. It used the sensors to help confirm the proper thermal conditioning of the engines. We had trained that plan, and then we ran into other issues, we were off the script in terms of the normal tanking operation, and the team did a fantastic job working through the managing of a hazardous condition. One of the worst things that you can do when you find yourself in a hazardous condition is just go even further off script.


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