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Verb prove has 9 senses
- prove, turn out, turn up - be shown or be found to be; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive"
--1 is one way to be
Sample sentences:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
It ----s that CLAUSE
- prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew - establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
--2 is one way to confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm
Antonyms: disprove, confute
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- testify, bear witness, prove, evidence, show - provide evidence for; "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"
--3 is one way to inform
Sample sentence:
They prove that there was a traffic accident
- prove - prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
--4 is one way to prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay - put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"
--5 is one way to judge
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- rise, prove - increase in volume; "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"
--6 is one way to grow
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- raise, leaven, prove - cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread"
--7 is one way to raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up
Sample sentence:
They prove more bread
- prove - take a trial impression of
--8 is one way to print, impress
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- prove - obtain probate of; "prove a will"
--9 is one way to authenticate
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Somebody ----s something
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