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

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. prove: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. prove: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. prove: Legal dictionary
  6. prove: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prove: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. prove: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PROVE: Acronym Finder
  2. prove: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. P.R.O.V.E, Prove: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See provable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out.
verb:  (intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.
verb:  (copulative) To turn out to be.
verb:  (transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.
verb:  (transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To experience.
verb:  (printing, dated, transitive) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
verb:  (homeopathy) To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
noun:  (baking) The process of dough proofing.
verb:  Alternative form of proof (“allow (dough) to rise; test the activeness of (yeast); pressure-test (a firearm)”) [(transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To proofread.]

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