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Validate

To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.

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Affirm 76% connected

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

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Alter 76% connected

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

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Authorize 76% connected

To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

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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…

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Clear 76% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Confirm 76% connected

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

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Corroborate 76% connected

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

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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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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Reassert 76% connected

To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so.

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Substantiate 76% connected

To make to exist; to make real.

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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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Sustain 76% connected

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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Manner of action 4

Circumstantiate 76% connected

To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.

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Probate 76% connected

Proof.

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Ratify 76% connected

To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servan…

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Sign 76% connected

That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

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Corroborative 74% connected

Tending to strengthen of confirm.

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Corroborative 74% connected

Tending to strengthen of confirm.

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Corroboratory 74% connected

Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.

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Corroboratory 74% connected

Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.

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Substantiation 74% connected

The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

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Substantiation 74% connected

The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

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Validation 74% connected

The act of giving validity.

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Validation 74% connected

The act of giving validity.

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Corroborate 92% connected

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

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Formalize 92% connected

To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Invalidate 94% connected

To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an…

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Invalidate 94% connected

To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an…

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