confirm
Part of speech: verb
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English confirmen, confermen, from Old French confermer, from Latin cōnfirmāre (“to make firm, strengthen, establish”), from con- (“together”) + firmāre (“to make firm”), from firmus (“firm”).
Inflected forms:
form: confirms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: confirming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: confirmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: confirmed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: confirm
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: confirm
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: confirmed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: confirm
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: confirmest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: confirmed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: confirmedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: confirms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: confirmeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: confirmed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: confirm
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: confirmed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: confirm
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: confirmed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: confirm
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: confirming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: confirmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: confirme
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: confirme
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
pos: verb
gloss: To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She pulled through with the boy till he was confirmed; but then she told him that she could not feed him any longer; he would have to go out and earn his own bread.
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.
gloss: To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
pos: verb
examples: Despite all the evidence confirming the existence of the Protheans, little is known about their culture and society. From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed.
The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.
Transport Minister Marples, meanwhile, used arrogant rhetoric and showed his personal contempt for railways when confirming in Parliament that a third of the network was to be closed even before the survey results were known.
gloss: To approve a proposal or nomination.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Senate must confirm federal court appointments.
gloss: For sure, definitely.
pos: adv
tags: Manglish
Singlish
not-comparable
examples: This is confirm not my handwriting.
That ex-lecturer-to-be confirm gone case liao.
Antonyms: infirm
disconfirm
deny
dispute
contradict
question
Related words: confirmability
confirmation
verify
corroborate
establish
prove
Derived words: autoconfirm
confirmable
confirmance
confirmative
confirmee
confirmingly
confirmshaming
deconfirm
misconfirm
preconfirm
reconfirm
unconfirm
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