Confirm (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

verb (used with object)
  1. to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
  2. to acknowledge with definite assurance: Did the hotel confirm our room reservation?
  3. to make valid or binding by some formal or legal act; sanction; ratify: to confirm a treaty;to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.
  4. to make firm or more firm; add strength to; settle or establish firmly: Their support confirmed my determination to run for mayor.
  5. to strengthen (a person) in habit, resolution, opinion, etc.: The accident confirmed him in his fear of driving.
  6. to administer the religious rite of confirmation to.
verb (tr)
  1. to prove to be true or valid; corroborate; verify
  2. to assert for a second or further time, so as to make more definite
  3. to strengthen or make more firm
  4. to make valid by a formal act or agreement; ratify
  5. to administer the rite of confirmation to
Confirm (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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