Overview of verb verify

The verb verify has 4 senses

• verify -- (confirm the truth of; "Please verify that the doors are closed"; "verify a claim")


• control, verify -- (check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard; "Are you controlling for the temperature?")


• verify -- (attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition))


• affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear -- (to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent")

Overview of adj verifying

The adj verifying has 1 sense

• collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying -- (serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence")