PROVE

vi to make trial; to essay.

2. prove ·vi to succeed; to turn out as expected.

3. prove ·vt to take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.

4. prove ·vt to evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.

5. prove ·vt to ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.

6. prove ·vi to be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.

7. prove ·vt to gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.

8. prove ·vt to try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.

9. prove ·vt to test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.