VERIFY


Meaning of VERIFY in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

claim

While it is at present impossible to verify the claims , the list reflects the ethnic and religious complexities of the area.

Among them: A specialized Police Department investigation unit would be designated to verify the disability claims .

■ VERB

need

All kinds of information informs my attitudes, but I need to verify this by inspecting the real thing very carefully.

Miguel said, as if he needed to verify it with some one.

Also the specificity of our results needs to be verified as we did not study patients with other inflammatory bowel diseases.

Airline officials argued that time was needed to verify names to ensure accuracy.

If there is more than one petitioner, then only one need swear the affidavit verifying the petition.

A week after being asked, the staff of the commission said it needed more time to verify that figure.

Experiments or observations are needed to verify it.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Accountants are working to verify the figures.

Doctors have verified that the injury was indeed work-related.

You can verify the facts in the report by calling his office.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Edey said it could take a week to verify those reports.

The influence of rehydration rate on germination of artificially dried seed has been also verified.

The reader should trace through these two cases graphically to verify the conclusions we have outlined.

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