validate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make valid; substantiate; confirm.
Time validated our suspicions.
- Synonyms:
- prove, verify, authenticate
- Antonyms:
- disprove
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to give legal force to; legalize.
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to give official sanction, confirmation, or approval to, as elected officials, election procedures, documents, etc..
to validate a passport.
verb
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to confirm or corroborate
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to give legal force or official confirmation to; declare legally valid
Other Word Forms
- revalidate verb (used with object)
- unvalidated adjective
- unvalidating adjective
- validation noun
- validator noun
- validatory adjective
Etymology
Origin of validate
First recorded in 1640–50; from Medieval Latin validātus (past participle of validāre “to make valid”), equivalent to valid- ( valid ) + -ātus past participle suffix ( -ate 1 )
Example Sentences
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Shares of Advanced Micro Devices were surging Tuesday morning after the chip maker struck a new deal that helps validate the company’s position as a key artificial-intelligence player.
From MarketWatch
Capital allocation to date has been validated with strong unit economics, the note says.
More recently, the final week of January printed a doji, a warning of exhaustion that was validated by a sharp 12% decline the following week, the steepest weekly drop since late October 2022.
From Barron's
We acknowledged that, we revisited our models, we set up a group of experts that looked into it and tried to validate what would have to be changed going forward.
“We calibrate and validate each device in this butt,” says Hall, who calls it the “key innovation” that made developing the sensor possible.
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