Establish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To set up; found. See Synonyms at found1.
  • v. To bring about; generate: establish goodwill in the neighborhood.
  • v. To place or settle in a secure position or condition; install: They established me in my own business.
  • v. To make firm or secure.
  • v. To cause to be recognized and accepted: a discovery that established his reputation.
  • v. To introduce and put (a law, for example) into force.
  • v. To prove the validity or truth of: The defense attorneys established the innocence of the accused.
  • v. To make a state institution of (a church).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To make stable or firm; to confirm.
  • v. To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
  • v. To appoint, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
  • v. To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
  • v. To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
  • v. To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.
  • v. To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true
  • v. To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make stable, firm, or sure; appoint; ordain; settle or fix unalterably.
  • To put or fix on a firm basis; settle stably or fixedly; put in a settled or an efficient state or condition; inceptively, set up or found: as, his health is well established; an established reputation; to establish a person in business; to establish a colony or a university.
  • To confirm or strengthen; make more stable or determinate.
  • To confirm by affirmation or approval; sanction; uphold.
  • To make good; prove; substantiate; show to be valid or well grounded; cause to be recognized as valid or legal; cause to be accepted as true or as worthy of credence; as, to establish one's claim or one's case; to establish a marriage or a theory.
  • To fix or settle permanently, or as if permanently: with a reflexive pronoun.
  • To settle, as property.
  • In systematic biol., to give technical publication to; fix by publication in the nomenclatorial sense. See publication, 5.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. build or establish something abstract
  • v. place
  • v. institute, enact, or establish
  • v. establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
  • v. use as a basis for; found on
  • v. bring about
  • v. set up or lay the groundwork for
  • v. set up or found
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    create    make    open    open up   
    Cross Reference
    Hyponym
    build   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    enact    ordain    found    institute   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts