Meaning of Establish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make stable or firm; to confirm.
   transitive
2. To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
   transitive
3. To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
   transitive
4. To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to demonstrate.
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).”

“But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.”

“By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.”

“to establish a fact   to establish a pattern”

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