Confirm

Definition

confirm /kǝn'fɜ:m/ v ၁။ အတည္ျပဳသည္။ ခိုင္မာေစသည္။ The rumours of an attack were later confirmed. ❍ The announcement confirmed my suspicions. ❍ Please write to confirm your reservation (ie say that it is definite). ❍ When asked, she confirmed that she was going to retire. ၂။ (က) ~ sth; ~ sb (in sth) ပို၍စြဲၿမဲ ယံုၾကည္သြားေစသည္။ The incident confirmed (him in) his dislike of dogs. (ခ) (ရာထူးခန္႔အပ္မႈ၊ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ စသည္) အတည္ျပဳသည္၊ အခိုင္အမာျဖစ္သည္။ He has been confirmed as captain for the rest of the season. ❍ After a six-month probationary period, her appointment was confirmed. အစမ္းခန္႔ကာလ(၆)လ ကုန္ၿပီးေနာက္ ရာထူး တြင္ အၿမဲတမ္းခန္႔လိုက္သည္။ ၃။ (usu passive) ခရစ္ယာန္ အသင္းေတာ္သို႔ တင္းျပည့္အသင္းဝင္အျဖစ္ ဝင္ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ She was baptized when she was a month old and confirmed when she was thirteen. ❏ confirmed adj အ႐ိုးစြဲေနေသာ။ အသားက်ေနေသာ။ a confirmed bachelor (ie a single man who is unlikely to marry) ❍ a confirmed drunkard/gambler.

Examples

1. The study confirms the findings of earlier research.
2. Please bring something with you that confirms your identity.
3. [confirm (that)] : The doctor may do a test to confirm that you are pregnant.
4. [confirm someone’s suspicions] : Their strange behaviour was enough to confirm my suspicions.
5. [confirm someone’s fears] : When she saw the letter her worst fears were confirmed.
6. [confirm someone in their belief/view/determination etc] : His words confirmed me in my belief that our cause was right.
7. We cannot confirm the number of jobs that will be lost.
8. [confirm that] : The head teacher confirmed that two pupils had been expelled.
9. The date of the meeting is still to be confirmed.
10. You can make an appointment now
11. and then call nearer the time to confirm.
12. The parliament’s decision still has to be confirmed in a referendum.
13. Nigel Hill was yesterday confirmed as the new chief executive.