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prove Verb

— When you prove something, you demonstrate that it is for real and true. I will prove my method is more effective than yours. The hypothesis has not been proven to our satisfaction.

prove

— verb (= turn out, turn up) be shown or be found to be She proved to be right The medicine turned out to save her life She turned up HIV positive — verb (= demonstrate, establish, show) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture — verb (= testify, evidence, show) provide evidence for The blood test showed that he was the father Her behavior testified to her incompetence — verb prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof — verb obtain probate of prove a will — verb take a trial impression of — verb (= rise) increase in volume the dough rose slowly in the warm room — verb (= test, try) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to This approach has been tried with good results Test this recipe — verb (= leaven) cause to puff up with a leaven unleavened bread

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Topics prove topics

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Language and thought Communication Say Debate

Demonstrate
Social behavior Law Trial

Investigate a crime
Social behavior Law Trial

Accuse, confront
Social behavior Law Trial

Defend against accusation
Social behavior Law Judge, render a verdict

Acquit

Conjugation prove conjugation

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Examples prove examples

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Simple sentences

Mathematicians love to prove things.
They knew that he did it but they couldn't prove it.
It's time for me to prove myself.
We have sufficient evidence to prove this hypothesis.
What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?
When you're trying to prove something, it helps to know it's true.
Mathematicians are poets, except that they have to prove what their fantasy creates.
Prosecutors in court have to substantiate their claims in order to prove a suspect is guilty.
Can you prove it?
Prove it by experiment.
It will prove to be up to expectation.
That just goes to prove that you are a liar.
I can prove that I am right.
The solution of one may prove to be the solution of the other.
Kate's wish is to prove that she is a worthy actress.
What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?
Unable to prove his innocence, he was forced to leave his native town.
It is difficult to prove that ghosts exist.
Now, we show how this lemma can be used to prove our main theorem.
These facts prove that he is innocent.

Movie subtitles

We are men. This is our time to prove that we are worthy.
Okay, here's where I prove my point.
If you want the jade palace back, You'll have to prove you're more worthy of it Than the crocs are.
There will be receipts to prove it, and no doubt security footage should you wish to delve further.
Mrs. Palmer's husband and daughter provided alibis that are impossible to prove one way or the other.
He is told that drinking alcohol will prove fatal for him.
The police prove incapable of finding the least trace of the missing bank messenger.
If so, then I can prove my husband's innocence.
Any jealous attempt on your part to interefere with the performance will prove disastrous to your career.
I shall prove tlo you the debth of my love.
But you know it was a lie. How am I gonna prove it?
I for one want the moon's riches of gold, should they actually prove to exist, to fall into the hands of businessmen and not visionaries and idealists!
Now you must prove, Gustav, that I can rely upon you!
Dear Maria, I go with Dr. Johannes to attempt the north face because it leaves me no peace I want to prove that I can achieve something, too Don't be angry, we'll be back this evening and hopefully we'll stay alone after that.
Prove that you are Muslim.
Well, ordinarily I'd take you on, but right now it seems I'm the only one who can prove your innocence.
We understand why you spilled your guts to us, but you still haven't shown us anything to prove your story.
I can prove it.
I'm not guilty but I can't prove it.
She's not a criminal and I'll prove it.
You're a-going to prove how good you are, before you leave the fort. And if I don't? Well, if you don't.
We pray that you will prove worthy of this trust we place in you, and successfully complete your goodwill mission.
But I have been unable to prove it.
On the contrary, it may prove to be most enlightening.
And perhaps I will prove to you that the superstition of yesterday can become the scientific reality of today.
Therefore I'll prove everything.
And as if to prove all I have said, here is one of the first to go.
Well, just to prove that I still think so, would you like to take a little drive with me and have dinner somewhere?
Doesn't this prove it?
That might prove effective.
Then why are you afraid to let me prove it?
We have to have wars now and then just to prove we're top dog.
What does that prove?
Anything you print about me, you've got to prove.
They didn't prove anything against him.
If you're grateful, you can prove it.
Well.. He's a communist and I can prove it.

News and current affairs

Indeed, another critical fundamental factor that has been sustaining high gold prices might prove far more ephemeral than globalization.
The market will prove one side right before too long.
Concerning external demand, intra-European help in the form of reflationary policies in stronger economies is unlikely to prove sufficient, owing primarily to the fiscal and political conditions prevailing in Germany.
There are altogether too many complex ideas floating around that look good on paper, but might well prove deeply flawed in a big-time crisis.
In the process, the risk of recession remains uncomfortably high, the unemployment crisis deepens, and inequities rise as already-stretched social safety nets prove even more porous.
Either way, fuzzy statements about hegemonic decline would again prove misleading.
One would assume that Obama would prove even more unsettling to bin Laden.
Continued threats of ever-higher tax burdens could prove dangerously counterproductive.
In dangerous times such as these, the world's peoples need to prove their solidarity.
If more countries take this path, it could prove to be the Achilles' heel of non-proliferation.
Whether she waited too long - and whether her vision will prove convincing - will be determined in the coming months.
If these scraps were to be the sum total of the Nice summit, it will prove unsatisfactory, even a failure.
When it came to Austria, however, there was a feeling that since this was not a military, but a purely political and moral situation, Brussels - and the Continent-wide political clout signified by it - would be able to prove efficient.
Foreign policy, too, may prove difficult to manage.
We can only hope that, in the end, the consequences of 2009 similarly prove to be far less dramatic than we now - intuitively and in our historical reflexes - feel them to be.
Clear-cutting of old growth forests in the mountains bordering Pakistan may prove as problematic.
Otherwise, Latin America may well prove to be Europe's next missed business opportunity.
But coming up with an approach that gains broad international support will prove extremely difficult.
This will prove more difficult than it first sounds.
Outside the context of war, in turn, state killings are legal only if they prove absolutely necessary to save lives.
Unless US leaders prove otherwise in every case, American UAV attacks in countries like Pakistan or Yemen should be called what they are: extrajudicial killings.
Although these criticisms don't seem to bother the electorate very much, Park's path to victory may yet prove narrower than her supporters expect.
Brazil wants to prove that it deserves a permanent seat on the Security Council.
Congress may also prove less willing to remove hurdles to Russia's admission to the World Trade Organization, given what is widely judged to be its leaders' anti-democratic behavior.

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