Synset:affirm confirm substantiate support sustain
Examples:
- his story confirmed my doubts
- The evidence supports the defendant
Antonyms:negate
Derivationally Related Form:affirmationcorroborationconfirmativecorroboratoryconfirmationsupportsustainablecorroborativeconfirmatorysubstantiativesubstantiationaffirmable
Inherited Hypernyms:confirm
Direct Hyponyms:backback updemonstratedocumentestablishproveshewshowvalidateverifyvouch
Full Troponyms:backcardcheckcinchcontrolcovercross-checkdisprovedocumentdouble-checkexplodefalsifyinvalidatenegateproofreadproveprove oneselfreceiptrefuteseesourcespot-checkstultifyvalidateverifyvouch
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s that CLAUSE | Something ---s something