All prove synonyms
prove
P p verb prove
- circumstantiated β Simple past tense and past participle of circumstantiate.
- examine β Inspect (someone or something) in detail to determine their nature or condition; investigate thoroughly.
- bear out β If someone or something bears a person out or bears out what that person is saying, they support what that person is saying.
- mortgaging β a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- let it all hang out β to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- make headway β forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
- experimentalize β (transitive) To make experiments upon.
- incarnated β embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form: a devil incarnate.
- guarantying β a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- dump on β to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
- attest β To attest something or attest to something means to say, show, or prove that it is true.
- go over β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- illustrate β to furnish (a book, magazine, etc.) with drawings, pictures, or other artwork intended for explanation, elucidation, or adornment.
- altercate β to argue, esp heatedly; dispute
- confess β If someone confesses to doing something wrong, they admit that they did it.
- involve β to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- make sure β free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- evidence β The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
- candling β a long, usually slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light.
- look see β a visual inspection or survey; look; examination: have a look-see.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- discept β To debate; to discuss.
- bandying β to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.
- assay β An assay is a test of a substance to find out what chemicals it contains. It is usually carried out to find out how pure a substance is.
- chew over β If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
- gunned β a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- disambiguate β to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence βShe lectured on the famous passenger ship,β you'll have to write either βlectured on boardβ or βlectured about.β.
- luck out β the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- eyeball β Look or stare at closely.
- hammer away at β persist
- demonstrate β If you demonstrate a particular skill, quality, or feeling, you show by your actions that you have it.
- juiced β intoxicated from alcohol; drunk: When arrested he was definitely juiced.
- ostend β a seaport in NW Belgium.
- carding β the process of preparing the fibres of cotton, wool, etc, for spinning
- aver β If you aver that something is the case, you say very firmly that it is true.
- chew the fat β If people chew the fat, they talk in a relaxed, informal way.
- get behind β support: a cause, etc.
- disculpate β (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- blow in β to arrive or enter suddenly
- check on β to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- corroborate β To corroborate something that has been said or reported means to provide evidence or information that supports it.
- mooting β Present participle of moot.
- make it β to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- go places β a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- cosign β to sign (a document) jointly
- lay open β to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- evince β Reveal the presence of (a quality or feeling).
- level with β having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.