Thesaurus: prove

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1. v. t. 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.
2. v. t. To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
3. v. t. To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
4. v. t. To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
5. v. t. 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.
6. v. t. To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.
7. v. i. To make trial; to essay.
8. v. i. To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.
9. v. i. To succeed; to turn out as expected.
10. v. be shown or be found to be
11. v. establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
12. v. provide evidence for