meaning of prove
1. 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. To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
3. To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
4. To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
5. 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. To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.
7. To make trial; to essay.
8. To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.
9. To succeed; to turn out as expected.
10. establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the
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