verify

Verb
  1. Confirm the truth of (synset 200666401)
    "Please verify that the doors are closed"; "verify a claim"
    is a type of: affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain - establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
    subtypes:
  2. Check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard (synset 202526663)
    "Are you controlling for the temperature?"
    referred to in: science, scientific discipline - a particular branch of scientific knowledge
    is a type of: essay, examine, prove, test, try, try out - put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
    same as: control
    verb group: ascertain, assure, check, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it - be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
  3. Attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition) (synset 201014404)
    referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
    is a type of: confirm, reassert - strengthen or make more firm
  4. To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true (synset 201013058)
    "Before God I swear I am innocent"
    is a type of: declare - state emphatically and authoritatively
    subtypes:
    • hold - assert or affirm
    • claim, take - lay claim to; as of an idea
    • attest - authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity
    • declare - state firmly
    • protest - affirm or avow formally or solemnly
    • assure, tell - inform positively and with certainty and confidence
    same as: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, swear

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