confirm
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
his story confirmed my doubts
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- negate antonym
- validation derivation
- documentation derivation
- affirmation derivation
- substantiation derivation
- confirmation derivation
- documentation derivation
- affirmable derivation
- confirmative derivation
- sustainable derivation
Sense 2 verb
strengthen or make more firm
The witnesses confirmed the victim's account
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- substantiation derivation
- confirmation derivation
- reassertion derivation
- confirmative derivation
Sense 3 verb
make more firm
Confirm thy soul in self-control!
Types & categories
- strengthen hypernym
Sense 4 verb
support a person for a position
The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense
Types & categories
- sanction hypernym
Related & opposite
- ratification derivation
Sense 5 verb
administer the rite of confirmation to
the children were confirmed in their mother's faith
Types & categories
- covenant hypernym
Related & opposite
- organized religion domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | negate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | validation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | documentation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | affirmation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | substantiation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | confirmation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | documentation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | affirmable |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | confirmative |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sustainable |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | back up |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | vouch |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | verify |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shew |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | document |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | validate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | substantiation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | confirmation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | reassertion |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | confirmative |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | affirm |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | uphold |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | warrant |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | verify |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | corroborate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | reconfirm |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | strengthen |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | ratification |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | sanction |
| 5 | domain topic | Related & opposite | organized religion |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | covenant |