verb
- Be shown or be found to be.
- usage: "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive"
- Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment.
- usage: "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
- synonyms: demonstrate, establish, show, shew
- Provide evidence for.
- usage: "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"
- synonyms: testify, bear witness, evidence, show
- Prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof.
- Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to.
- usage: "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"
- Increase in volume.
- usage: "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"
- synonyms: rise
- Cause to puff up with a leaven.
- usage: "unleavened bread"
- Take a trial impression of.
- Obtain probate of.
- usage: "prove a will"