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Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

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Similar meaning 4

Imperviable 84% connected

Not pervious; impervious.

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Imperviable 84% connected

Not pervious; impervious.

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Impervious 84% connected

Not pervious; not admitting of entrance or passage through; as, a substance impervious to water or air.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Impervious 84% connected

Not pervious; not admitting of entrance or passage through; as, a substance impervious to water or air.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 27

Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Amount 76% connected

To go up; to ascend.

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Argument 76% connected

Proof; evidence.

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Ascertain 76% connected

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

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Assure 76% connected

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Check 76% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Determination 76% connected

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

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Ensure 76% connected

To make sure. See Insure.

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Evidence 76% connected

That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Finding 76% connected

of Find

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Impression 76% connected

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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Insure 76% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

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Knead 76% connected

To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the mater…

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Measure 76% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Print 76% connected

To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.

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Printing 76% connected

of Print

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Produce 76% connected

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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Quantity 76% connected

To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Statement 76% connected

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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Strengthen 76% connected

To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Narrower term 13

authentication 76% connected

Checking that someone or something is who it claims to be.

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Certification 76% connected

The act of certifying.

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Check 76% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Confirmation 76% connected

The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.

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Demonstration 76% connected

The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.

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Establishment 76% connected

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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Monetization 76% connected

The act or process of converting into money, or of adopting as money; as, the monetization of silver.

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Monstrance 76% connected

A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view.

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Probate 76% connected

Proof.

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Substantiation 76% connected

The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Validation 76% connected

The act of giving validity.

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verification 76% connected

Checking that something was built according to its requirements.

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Manner of action 4

Bombproof 76% connected

Secure against the explosive force of bombs.

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Bulletproof 76% connected

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Fireproof 76% connected

Proof against fire; incombustible.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Weatherproof 76% connected

Proof against rough weather.

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Derivationally related 2

Substantiate 74% connected

To make to exist; to make real.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Substantiate 74% connected

To make to exist; to make real.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Entails 1

Read 72% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 2

Substantiation 92% connected

The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Validation 92% connected

The act of giving validity.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stronger synonym 1

Evidence 92% connected

That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the…

words for evidence 62% interchangeable softer

Evidence or reasoning establishing a conclusion; use carefully outside mathematics.

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