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Testify

To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them.

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Abduce 76% connected

To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Adduce 76% connected

To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Attest 76% connected

To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Certify 76% connected

To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cite 76% connected

To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Demonstrate 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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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Manifest 76% connected

Evident to the senses, esp. to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived; hence, obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehens…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Presume 76% connected

To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake without leave or authority previously obtained.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Vouch 76% connected

To call; to summon.

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Declare 76% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Inform 76% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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Attestation 74% connected

The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Attestation 74% connected

The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Witness 74% connected

Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Witness 74% connected

Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.

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Attest 92% connected

To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prove 92% connected

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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Show 92% connected

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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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