· establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"

Synonym(s): corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm

· strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"

Synonym(s): reassert

Hypernym(s): affirm

· make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"

Hypernym(s): strengthen, beef_up, fortify

· support a person for a position; "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"

Hypernym(s): approve, O.K., okay, sanction

· administer the rite of confirmation to; "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"

Hypernym(s): covenant

· indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen; "a positive pregnancy test"

Synonym(s): positive

· serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"

Synonym(s): collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying