1. Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
   "his story confirmed my doubts"
   - corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm 
2. Strengthen or make more firm
   "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"
   - reassert 
3. Make more firm
   "Confirm thy soul in self-control!" 
4. Support a person for a position
   "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense" 
5. Administer the rite of confirmation to
   "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"

Derived forms: confirming, confirms, confirmed

See also: confirmation, confirmative

Type of: affirm, approve, beef up, covenant, fortify, O.K., okay, sanction, strengthen

Encyclopedia: Confirm

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