SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
validate
verb
To establish that something is sound or supported.
Local English device voice, when available. This is not a recorded dictionary pronunciation.
Establish soundness
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Usage distinction
Return to topValidate checks or supports validity in the relevant sense. Endorse expresses approval, while authenticate chiefly establishes genuineness or origin.
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See validate in use
Independent records helped validate the historian's account.
Sera wrote that the note was presumably added by a previous owner because its handwriting resembled that owner's annotations elsewhere in the collection, but she marked that explanation as an assumption. She would need further records to validate the proposed chain of ownership.
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