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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

provar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: proˈvaʁ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Prove/pruːv/
verbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #850 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ela precisa provar sua identidade antes de entrar no prédio."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To demonstrate the truth or existence of something by evidence or argument.

    "She had to prove her identity before she could enter the building."
  2. 2

    To establish the quality, accuracy, or validity of something.

    "The experiment was designed to prove the hypothesis."
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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'proven', from Old French 'prover' (11th century), and ultimately from Latin 'probare' meaning to test, try, or find good. The root shares an Indo-European origin with the English word 'probe'.

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