English Explanatory Dictionary

prove

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify.
  2. To turn out; to manifest.
  3. To turn out to be.
  4. To put to the test, to make trial of.
  5. To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
  6. To experience.
  7. To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
  8. Alternative form of proof (“allow (dough) to rise; test the activeness of (yeast); pressure-test (a firearm)”).
  9. To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
noun
  1. The process of dough proofing.
verb
  1. simple past of proove

Pronunciation

pro͞ov /pɹuːv/ en-us-prove.ogg /pɹəʊv/

Word forms

prove proves proving proved proven no-table-tags glossary provest provedst proveth proove

Etymology

From Middle English proven, from Old English prōfian (“to esteem, regard as, evince, try, prove”) and Old French prover (“to prove”), both from Latin probō (“test, try, examine, approve, show to be good or fit, prove”, verb), from probus (“good, worthy, excellent”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰuH-s (“being in front, prominent”), from *pro-, *per- (“toward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”). Displaced native Middle English sothen (“to prove”), from Old English sōþian (“to prove”). Doublet of probe. More at for, be, soothe.

Related words

approve probe probity proof the exception proves the rule

Derived words

counterprove disprovability disprovable disprovably disprove disproved disproven exception that proves the rule fend and prove misprove overprove provability provable provably prove oneself prove out prover proving ground reprove unprovability unprovable unprovably unprove unproved unproven unproving until proven otherwise
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