Confirm

[kən'fɜːm] or [kən'fɝm]

解释:

(verb.) make more firm; 'Confirm thy soul in self-control!'.

(verb.) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; 'his story confirmed my doubts'; 'The evidence supports the defendant'.

(verb.) strengthen or make more firm; 'The witnesses confirmed the victim's account'.

(verb.) administer the rite of confirmation to; 'the children were confirmed in their mother's faith'.

(verb.) support a person for a position; 'The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense'.

手打:特雷弗--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

(v. t.) To strengthen in judgment or purpose.

(v. t.) To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.

编辑:莉莉

同义词及近义词：

v. a. [1]. Establish, fix, settle, assure, make firm.[2]. Strengthen, add strength to.[3]. Corroborate, substantiate, verify.[4]. Ratify, sanction, bind.

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同义词及反义词：

SYN:Strengthen, stabilitate, establish, substantiate, settle, prove, fix,perpetuate, sanction, corroborate, ratify

ANT:Weaken, shake, upset, cancel, abrogate, repeal, annul, confute, refute

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解释:

v.t. to strengthen: to fix or establish: to ratify: to verify: to assure: to admit to full communion.—adj. Confirm′able.—n. Confirmā′tion a making firm or sure: convincing proof: the rite by which persons are admitted to full communion in the R.C. Greek Lutheran Anglican and other Churches.—adjs. Confirm′ative tending to confirm; Confirm′atory giving additional strength to: confirming; Confirmed′ settled: inveterate.—ns. Confirmee′ one to whom anything is confirmed; Confirm′er; Confirm′ing.

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