Shew: alternatives and connections

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.

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

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To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.

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To make to exist; to make real.

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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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To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

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

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To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.

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To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

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To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.

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To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.

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To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

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To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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