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Adjective: confirmed  kun'furmd
  1. Of persons; not subject to change
    "a confirmed bachelor"; "a confirmed invalid"
  2. Having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation
    "confirmed reservations"; "received confirmed reports of casualties"; "a confirmed Catholic"
Verb: confirm  kun'furm
  1. Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
    "his story confirmed my doubts";
    - corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm
  2. Strengthen or make more firm
    "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account";
    - reassert
  3. Support a person for a position
    "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"
  4. (religion) administer the rite of confirmation to
    "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"

See also: official, unchangeable

Type of: affirm, approve, beef up, covenant, fortify, greenlight, green-light, O.K., OK, okay, sanction, strengthen

Antonym: unconfirmed

Encyclopedia: Confirmed