prove

Definitions


[pruːv], (Verb)

Definitions:
- demonstrate the truth or existence of (something) by evidence or argument
(e.g: the concept is difficult to prove)

- demonstrate to be the specified thing by evidence or argument
(e.g: if they are proved guilty we won't trade with them)

- (of bread dough) become aerated by the action of yeast; rise

- subject (a gun) to a testing process
(e.g: firearms proved for black powder should not be used with smokeless ammunition)


Phrases:
- not proven
- prove someone wrong

Origin:
Middle English: from Old French prover, from Latin probare ‘test, approve, demonstrate’, from probus ‘good’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries