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Definição e significado de confirm
Definição
confirm (v. trans.)
1.prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something
2.support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm"The stories and claims were born out by the evidence"
3.make more firm"Confirm thy soul in self-control!"
4.establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts"his story confirmed my doubts" "The evidence supports the defendant"
5.strengthen or make more firm"The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"
6.administer the rite of confirmation to"the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"
7.support a person for a position"The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"
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Merriam Webster
ConfirmCon*firm" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confrmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Confirming.] [OE. confermen, confirmen, OF. confermer, F. confirmer, fr. L. confirmare; con- + firmare to make firm, fr. firmus firm. See Firm.]
1. To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs. Shak.
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law. Ps. cv. 10.
2. To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
Confirmed, then, I resolve
Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe. Milton.
3. To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale. Pope.
These likelihoods confirm her flight. Shak.
4. To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.
That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed. Swift.
5. (Eccl.) To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament. Hammond.
Syn. -- To strengthen; corroborate; substantiate; establish; fix; ratify; settle; verify; assure.
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Sinónimos
confirm (v. trans.)
affirm, approve, assure, authorize, autograph, bear out, clinch, corroborate, demonstrate, endorse, establish, fortify, invigorate, necessitate, prove, ratify, reassert, reinforce, resolve, settle, sign, strengthen, substantiate, support, sustain, underpin, underwrite, uphold, validate, verify
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Ver também
confirm (v. trans.)
↘ check, collateral, confirmation, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, ratification, substantiating, substantiation, substantiative, validating, validatory, verification, verificatory, verifying ≠ contradict, invalidate, negate, nullify
Locuções
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Dicionario analógico
confirm (v. tr.)
affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain[Hyper.]
proof, substantiation, validation - establishment, validation - collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying[Dérivé]
invalidate, nullify[Ant.]
confirm (v. tr.)
affirmer (fr)[Classe]
aller dans le même sens, confirmer (fr)[Classe]
procédure judiciaire (fr)[DomaineCollocation]
agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally, tie in/up[Hyper.]
documentation, support - certification, corroboration, documentation - collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying[Dérivé]
confirm (v. tr.)
confirm (v. tr.)
proof, substantiation, validation - documentation, support - affirmation - check, confirmation, substantiation, verification - confirmation - certification, corroboration, documentation - affirmable, assertable - collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying - sustainable[Dérivé]
contradict, negate[Ant.]
confirm (v. tr.)
confirm (v. tr.)
bless[Classe]
confirm (v. tr.)
approve, O.K., okay, sanction[Hyper.]
confirmation, ratification[Dérivé]
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