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What does the word verify mean?

    Part of speech: verb transitive

  • To prove to be true; confirm; authenticate.

    • Part of speech: noun

  • VERIFIER.

    • Part of speech: noun

  • Verification.

    • Part of speech: adjective

  • Verifiable.

Usage examples for verify

  1. The Apostle is speaking about himself as he was, and we have our own consciousness to verify his transcript of his own personal experience. – Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren
  2. But I have other ways of finding out what I wish to know, and I shall verify what you have told me. – The Iron Trail by Rex Beach
  3. They have the copies both of them and of your Majesty's replies, and Nan and Curll to verify them. – Unknown to History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte M. Yonge