Synonyms of the word

establish

• v. (transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.
• v. (transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
• v. (transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
• v. (transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.

affirm

• v. To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
• v. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
• v. To support or encourage.
• v. To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or…

base

• n. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
• n. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
• n. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
• n. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
• n. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
• n. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
• n. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
• n. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus…
• n. Important areas in games and sports.
• n. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
• n. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
• n. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
• n. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
• n. (geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid…
• n. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
• n. (heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
• n. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
• n. (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
• n. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
• n. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
• n. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that…
• n. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
• n. (music) Dated form of bass.
• n. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
• n. (archaic) The housing of a horse.
• n. (historical, in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour)…
• n. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
• n. (obsolete) An apron.
• n. A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from…
• v. (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
• v. (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
• v. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
• adj. (obsolete) Low in height; short.
• adj. Low in place or position.
• adj. (obsolete) Of low value or degree.
• adj. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
• adj. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
• adj. (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
• adj. Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble.
• adj. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
• adj. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
• adj. Not classical or correct.
• adj. Obsolete form of bass.
• adj. (law) Not held by honourable service.
• n. (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
• acr. Alternative form of BASE.

build

• v. (transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
• v. (transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
• v. (transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
• v. (transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
• v. (intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
• v. (transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
• v. (intransitive, computing, of software) To be constructed by compilation of source code, usually with minimal…
• n. (countable, uncountable) The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body.
• n. (computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release…
• n. (video games, slang, countable) Any structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, created by…

confirm

• v. To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
• v. (transitive, Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
• v. To assure the accuracy of previous statements.

constitute

• v. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
• v. To make up; to compose; to form.
• v. To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
• n. (obsolete) An established law.

corroborate

• v. (transitive) To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
• v. (transitive) To make strong; to strengthen.

create

• v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
• v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
• v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
• v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
• v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
• adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

demonstrate

• v. To display the method of using an object.
• v. To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
• v. To participate in or organize a demonstration.
• v. To show, display, present.

found

• n. Food and lodging, board.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of find.
• v. To begin building.
• v. To start some type of organization or company.
• v. To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
• v. To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
• n. A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

ground

• n. (uncountable) The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
• n. (uncountable) Terrain.
• n. (uncountable) Soil, earth.
• n. (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
• n. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
• n. Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
• n. Background, context, framework, surroundings.
• n. The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
• n. In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
• n. In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
• n. In etching, a gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from…
• n. (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings…
• n. (countable) A soccer stadium.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
• n. (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena…
• n. (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually…
• n. (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
• n. The pit of a theatre.
• v. (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
• v. (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give…
• v. (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
• v. To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
• v. (baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular))…
• v. (cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease…
• v. (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
• v. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
• v. (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with…
• v. To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of grind.
• adj. Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
• adj. Processed by grinding.

initiate

• adj. (obsolete) Unpractised; untried; new.
• adj. (obsolete) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
• n. A new member of an organization.
• n. One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.
• v. (transitive) To begin; to start.
• v. To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
• v. To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
• v. (intransitive) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

instal

• v. (transitive) Alternative spelling of install.
• v. (Britain, rare) To pay by instalments.
• n. (informal) Installation.

install

• n. (computing) A computer software utility that is run to install a software application. Also used attributively.
• n. (informal) an installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.).
• v. (transitive) To connect, set up or prepare something for use.
• v. (transitive) To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
• v. (transitive) To establish or settle in.

institute

• n. An organization founded to promote a cause.
• n. An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects.
• n. The building housing such an institution.
• n. (obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
• n. (obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
• n. (law, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
• v. (transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To train, instruct.
• v. To nominate; to appoint.
• v. (ecclesiastical, law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
• adj. (obsolete) Established; organized; founded.

launch

• v. (transitive) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat.
• v. (transitive) To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to…
• v. (intransitive, often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the…
• n. The act of launching.
• n. The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on…
• n. (nautical) The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often…
• n. (nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yaucht.
• n. (nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish…

make

• v. (transitive, heading) To create.
• v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
• v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
• v. To constitute.
• v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
• v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
• v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
• v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
• v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
• v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
• v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
• v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
• v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
• v. To appoint; to name.
• v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
• v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
• v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• v. To enact; to establish.
• v. To develop into; to prove to be.
• v. To form or formulate in the mind.
• v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
• v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
• v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
• n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
• n. How a thing is made; construction.
• n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
• n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
• n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
• n. A person's character or disposition.
• n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
• n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
• n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
• n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
• n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
• n. (slang, military) A promotion.
• n. A home-made project.
• n. (basketball) A made basket.
• n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

open

• adj. (not comparable) not closed; accessible; unimpeded.
• adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
• adj. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
• adj. (comparable) Receptive.
• adj. (not comparable) Public.
• adj. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
• adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
• adj. (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
• adj. (business) Not fulfilled.
• adj. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
• adj. (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
• adj. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty…
• adj. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
• adj. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
• adj. (phonetics, of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
• adj. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
• adj. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects…
• v. (transitive) To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.
• v. (transitive) To bring up (a topic).
• v. (transitive) To make accessible to customers or clients.
• v. (transitive) To start (a campaign).
• v. (intransitive) To become open.
• v. (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
• v. To enter upon; to begin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
• v. (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
• v. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
• v. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
• n. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
• n. (electronics) a wire that is broken midway.
• n. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
• n. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.

pioneer

• n. One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
• n. A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
• n. (obsolete, military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as…
• n. A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
• n. (communism) A child of 10–16 years in the former Soviet Union, in the second of the three stages in becoming…
• v. To go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.

plant

• n. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically…
• n. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land…
• n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have…
• n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including…
• n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
• n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
• n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
• n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
• n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the…
• n. (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
• n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
• n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
• n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
• n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
• n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
• v. (transitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
• v. (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
• v. (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
• v. To place in the ground.
• v. To furnish or supply with plants.
• v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
• v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
• v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
• v. To set up; to install; to instate.

prove

• v. (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
• v. (intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.
• v. (copulative) To turn out to be.
• v. (transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To experience.
• v. (printing, dated, transitive) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
• v. simple past tense of proove.

shew

• v. Archaic form of show.
• v. (East Anglia dialect) simple past tense of show.
• n. Archaic form of show.

show

• v. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
• v. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
• v. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
• v. (transitive) To guide or escort.
• v. (intransitive) To be visible, to be seen.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
• v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
• v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
• n. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
• n. (countable) An exhibition of items.
• n. (countable) A demonstration.
• n. (countable) A broadcast program/programme.
• n. (countable) A movie.
• n. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance.
• n. A project or presentation.
• n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
• n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
• n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
• n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

substantiate

• v. (transitive) To verify something by supplying evidence; to authenticate or corroborate.
• v. (transitive) To give material form or substance to something; to embody; to record in documents.

support

• n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
• n. Financial or other help.
• n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
• n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
• n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
• n. Evidence.
• n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
• n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
• v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
• v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
• v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
• v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
• v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
• v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
• v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
• v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
• v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
• v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

sustain

• n. (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
• v. (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
• v. (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
• v. (transitive) To encourage (something).
• v. (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate.
• v. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
• v. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.