validate

Verb

WordNet 3.0

Verb (4)

  1. declare or make legally validSynonyms: formalizeformalise
  2. prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something
  3. give evidence forSynonyms: corroborate
  4. make valid or confirm the validity of“validate a ticket”
Word of the day · Sep 28About this word
onerousadjective

What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz

Advertisement

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Val′i·date transitive verb

Origin: See Valid.

To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.

The chamber of deputies... refusing to validate at once the election of an official candidate.— London Spectator

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

Advertisement