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Prove

verb
(past proved; past part. proven; pres. part. proving)
1.
Be shown or be found to be.  Synonyms: turn out, turn up.  "The medicine turned out to save her life" , "She turned up HIV positive"
2.
Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment.  Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, shew, show.  "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
3.
Provide evidence for.  Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, show, testify.  "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"
4.
Prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof.
5.
Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to.  Synonyms: essay, examine, test, try, try out.  "Test this recipe"
6.
Increase in volume.  Synonym: rise.
7.
Cause to puff up with a leaven.  Synonyms: leaven, raise.
8.
Take a trial impression of.
9.
Obtain probate of.



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"Prove" Quotes from Famous Books



... and being much taken with her, for that she was handsome, well-mannered and engaging, said, 'Honest man, an thou be content to leave thy daughter with me, I will willingly take her, for that she hath a good favour, and if she prove an honest woman, I will in due time marry her on such wise that she shall fare well.' This offer was very pleasing to the count, who promptly answered, 'Yes,' and with tears gave up the girl to the lady, urgently commending ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio

... the special case of Dr. Marks, who was drugged while on the train. The person who drugged him dropped soluble salt paste on the rug of his room. Can we accept the fact that the salt paste was used for EEG electrodes, and a recording made while Marks was under the influence of the drug? We can't prove it, but what other explanation ...
— The Electronic Mind Reader • John Blaine

... experienced it, as you say, it would be your own fault if you did not remedy that matter. I leave it to you to do what is most fitting. What occurs to us to advise you is, not to allow any religious to make charges or prove the innocence of any government official, unless it should be in some very special and particular case, in which his act may have occurred with the knowledge of such religious, and can be investigated in no other way. You shall observe the same rule in official investigations, in which if ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 • Emma Helen Blair

... should not avenge himself upon this Rebel, for all his superlative Wickedness in his modern as well as ancient Station; for the Blood of so many millions of his faithful Subjects and Saints whom he has destroy'd; and if nothing else offer'd it self to prove this Part, it would appear undoubted to me; but this, I confess, does not belong to Satan's History, and therefore I have reserv'd it to this Place, and shall also be ...
— The History of the Devil - As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts • Daniel Defoe

... a model of that very column," said Rollo, "in a little room at the hotel. It is the column of Trajan. I'll prove it ...
— Rollo in Rome • Jacob Abbott


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