Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm(verb)

   establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

   "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"

2. confirm, reassert(verb)

   strengthen or make more firm

   "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"

3. confirm(verb)

   make more firm

   "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"

4. confirm(verb)

   support a person for a position

   "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"

5. confirm(verb)

   administer the rite of confirmation to

   "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. confirm(Verb)

   To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.

2. confirm(Verb)

   To confer the Christian sacrament of confirmation.

3. confirm(Verb)

   To assure the accuracy of previous statements.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Confirm(verb)

   to make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise

2. Confirm(verb)

   to strengthen in judgment or purpose

3. Confirm(verb)

   to give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor

4. Confirm(verb)

   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

5. Confirm(verb)

   to administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Confirm

   kon-fėrm′, 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. [O. Fr. confermer—L. confirmāre—con, inten., and firmāre—firmus, firm.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'confirm' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3736

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'confirm' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3479

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'confirm' in Verbs Frequency: #256

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of confirm in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of confirm in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. Martin Bouygues:

   Yes, I confirm that.

2. Interior Minister Abderahim Bireme Hamid:

   I can confirm that it was a suicide attack.

3. Lawrence Durrell:

   Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

4. Charles Abrahams:

   We can confirm that they will appeal the ruling.

5. Chuck Ardo:

   I can neither confirm, deny, or otherwise comment.

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