Confirm vs. Prove

Confirmverb

To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.

Confirmverb

To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).

Confirmverb

To assure the accuracy of previous statements.

Confirmverb

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

Confirmverb

To strengthen in judgment or purpose.

Confirmverb

To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.

Confirmverb

To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.

Confirmverb

To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.

Confirmverb

establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;

Confirmverb

strengthen or make more firm;

Confirmverb

make more firm;

Confirmverb

as of a person to a position;

Confirmverb

administer the rite of confirmation to;

Proveverb

(transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.

Proveverb

(intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.

Proveverb

(copulative) To turn out to be.

Proveverb

(transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.

Proveverb

(transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.

Proveverb

To experience

Proveverb

To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.

Provenoun

(baking) The process of dough proofing.

Proveverb

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 contents of a vessel by a standard measure.

Proveverb

To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.

Proveverb

To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.

Proveverb

To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.

Proveverb

To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.

Proveverb

To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.

Proveverb

To make trial; to essay.

Proveverb

To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.

Proveverb

To succeed; to turn out as expected.

Proveverb

be shown or be found to be;

Proveverb

establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment;

Proveverb

provide evidence for;

Proveverb

prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof

Proveverb

put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;

Proveverb

increase in volume;

Proveverb

cause to puff up with a leaven;

Proveverb

take a trial impression of

Proveverb

obtain probate of;