Usually means: State as fact; assert strongly.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word affirm:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. affirm: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. affirm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. affirm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. affirm: Collins English Dictionary
  5. affirm: Vocabulary.com
  6. Affirm, affirm: Wordnik
  7. affirm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. affirm: Wiktionary
  9. affirm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. affirm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. affirm: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. affirm: Dictionary.com
  13. affirm: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. affirm: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Affirm (company), Affirm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Affirm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. affirm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. affirm: Rhymezone
  19. affirm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. affirm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. affirm: Free Dictionary
  22. affirm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. affirm: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. affirm: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. affirm: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. affirm: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. affirm: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. affirm: Legal dictionary
  6. affirm: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affirm: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AFFIRM: Acronym Finder

(Note: See affirmable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
verb:  To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
verb:  To support or encourage.
verb:  To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
verb:  (law) To state under a solemn promise to tell the truth which is considered legally equivalent to an oath, especially of those who have religious or other moral objections to swearing oaths; also solemnly affirm.

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