WordWeb Online

1. Indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
   "a confirming pregnancy test"
   - positive
    
2. Serving to support or corroborate
   "confirming evidence"
   - collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying

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"; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"
   - reassert
    
3. Support a person for a position
   "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"
    
4. Administer the rite of confirmation to
   "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"

See also: confirmation, Gram-positive, supportive

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

Encyclopedia: Confirm