validate
- to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- to give legal force to; legalize.
- to give official sanction, confirmation, or approval to, as elected officials, election procedures, documents, etc.: to validate a passport.
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ratify, certify, confirm, legalize, substantiate, legitimize, corroborate, verify, approve, endorse, justify, authorize, constitute, authenticate, okay, sanction, rubber-stampExamples from the Web for validated
Contemporary Examples of validated
He loves his wife, but is deeply in love with himself and needs to be validated constantly.
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And that judgment—which could have been wrong—was validated later.
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Roddenberry says his client base expanded quickly after the Affordable Care Act was validated by the Supreme Court last year.
Only reproducible experiments, and ones that justify interest, are validated.
You have validated—indeed, rescued—Obama's signature domestic achievement.
Historical Examples of validated
Henry Thorne, who had their tickets, took them into the office to have them validated.
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Variations that could be validated as typographical errors have been corrected.
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On the other hand in 1752 the Sinhalese succession was validated by obtaining monks from Burma.
On the 30th March the Council had validated six elections with a relative majority.
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Nevertheless its claim to be the sole possible explanation can in nowise be validated.
validate
- to confirm or corroborate
- to give legal force or official confirmation to; declare legally valid
Word Origin and History for validated
validate
1640s, from Latin validatus, from validus (see valid). Related: Validated; validating.