meaning of confirm
1. To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
2. To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
3. To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
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.
5. To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
6. make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in
">self-control!"
Related Words
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