confirm

v 1: strengthen or make more firm as by corroboration; "his story

confirmed my doubts" [syn: {corroborate}, {sustain}, {substantiate},

{support}, {affirm}] [ant: {negate}]

2: strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the

victim's account" [syn: {reassert}]

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

4: as of a person to a position: "The Senate confirmed the

President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"

5: administer confirmation to; a church rite