证实
zhèngshí
to confirm, to verify
Part of speech · verb
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 这个消息已经得到证实。This news has already been confirmed.
- 实验结果证实了他的猜想。The experimental results confirmed his conjecture.
Collocations
得到证实证实消息尚未证实证实身份
Mnemonic
证 zhèng "to prove" + 实 shí "real": to prove something real, i.e. to confirm, to verify. 证 has the speech radical 讠. Contrast 证明 (to prove, broader): 证实 confirms that a rumor or conjecture is true. Slug suffixed -confirm to disambiguate. Opposite of 否认 (to deny).
Related
证明核实确认否认
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