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Prove

verb

(past proved; past part. proven; pres. part. proving)

Be shown or be found to be. Synonyms: turn out, turn up. "The medicine turned out to save her life" , "She turned up HIV positive"

Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment. Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, shew, show. "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture" Antonym: disprove.

Provide evidence for. Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, show, testify. "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"

Prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof.

Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to. Synonyms: essay, examine, test, try, try out. "Test this recipe"

Increase in volume. Synonym: rise.

Cause to puff up with a leaven. Synonyms: leaven, raise.

Take a trial impression of.

Obtain probate of.

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"Prove" Quotes from Famous Books

... missed sooner at the bank. Luke longed to have Miss Sprague go, that he might confer with his mother on this subject. He had been told to keep the possession of the box secret, and therefore he didn't wish to reveal the fact that he had it unless it should prove ...

— Struggling Upward - or Luke Larkin's Luck • Horatio Alger

... the aid of any extraordinary power, everywhere receives voluntary obedience.' It was afterwards stated by Lord George Bentinck that Peel had changed his opinions about Catholic emancipation in 1825, and had communicated this change to Lord Liverpool. The letters before us, however, conclusively prove that if Peel was shaken, it was not about the merits of emancipation, but about the practicability of resisting it. Having been four times defeated in the Commons on the Catholic question, he tendered his resignation, and Lord Liverpool at once declared ...

— Historical and Political Essays • William Edward Hartpole Lecky

... was. I tried to please him all I could. When he scolded me I answered him softly. I prayed for him and for all my relatives every day. I asked the Lord to send the Holy Spirit to them, that they might prove what was good. Two or three months afterward, I found my father and relatives changed a great deal. They seemed to like Christianity more than ...

— The American Missionary - Volume 42, No. 3, March 1888 • Various

... postings included immediate transliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning the coup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow's streets. In those hours, years of speculation that totalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip on politically-loaded information in the age of computer networking were proved devastatingly accurate — and the original kremvax joke became a reality as Yeltsin and the new Russian ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... again urged, and this time there was silence, save for his own strong voice. "We don't want to prove ourselves to be as despicable as the enemy are. Bring 'em up to the street, but don't be brutal about it. We'll look the scoundrels over so that we'll know them to-morrow. Come along. Clear the ...

— The Young Engineers in Arizona - Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand • H. Irving Hancock

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