prove
verb
[ pruːv ]
• demonstrate the truth or existence of (something) by evidence or argument.
• "the concept is difficult to prove"
Similar:
demonstrate,
show,
show beyond doubt,
show to be true,
manifest,
produce/submit proof,
produce/submit evidence,
establish evidence,
evince,
witness to,
give substance to,
determine,
demonstrate the truth of,
substantiate,
corroborate,
verify,
ratify,
validate,
authenticate,
attest,
certify,
document,
bear out,
confirm,
• demonstrate to be the specified thing by evidence or argument.
• "if they are proved guilty we won't trade with them"
• (of bread dough) become aerated by the action of yeast; rise.
• subject (a gun) to a testing process.
• "firearms proved for black powder should not be used with smokeless ammunition"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French prover, from Latin probare ‘test, approve, demonstrate’, from probus ‘good’.
