Definition of Confirm

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Confirm

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

To strengthen in judgment or purpose.

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

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.

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

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Confirm Quotations

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
Jim Morrison

I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.
Jimmy Johnson

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
Gerald R. Ford

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
Christopher Lasch

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.
Wim Wenders

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.
Jay Alan Sekulow

Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.
Ron Lewis

Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.
Edward Burnett Tylor

Confirm Translations

confirm in Afrikaans is bevestig, erken
confirm in Dutch is bevestigen, aannemen
confirm in Finnish is vahvistaa
confirm in French is confirmer, confirment, confirmez, confirmons
confirm in Italian is certificare
confirm in Norwegian is bekrefte
confirm in Portuguese is confirme
confirm in Spanish is confirmar, revalidar

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