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单词 confirm
释义 Verb: confirm  kun'furm
  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

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