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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: confirmed, confirms, confirming

See also: confirmation, confirmative

Type of: affirm, approve, beef up, covenant, fortify, O.K., okay, sanction, strengthen

Encyclopedia: Confirm