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1. Serving to support or corroborate
   "verifying evidence";
   - collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory

1. Confirm the truth of
   "Please verify that the doors are closed"; "verify a claim"
    
2. (science) check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard
   - control
    
3. (law) attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition)
    
4. To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
   "Before God I verify I am innocent";
   - affirm, assert, avow, aver, swear

See also: supportive

Type of: affirm, confirm, corroborate, declare, essay, examine, pronounce, prove, reassert, substantiate, support, sustain, test, trial, try, try out

Encyclopedia: Verifying