/ Thesaurus / P Synonyms of proved Find synonyms for: Verb1. prove, turn out, turn up, beusage: be shown or be found to be; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive"2. prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew, confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirmusage: establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"3. testify, bear witness, prove, evidence, show, informusage: provide evidence for; "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"4. prove, prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shewusage: prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof5. test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay, evaluate, pass judgment, judgeusage: put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"6. rise, prove, growusage: increase in volume; "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"7. raise, leaven, prove, raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring upusage: cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread"8. prove, print, impressusage: take a trial impression of9. prove, authenticateusage: obtain probate of; "prove a will"Adjective1. proved (vs. unproved), proven, established, evidenced, tested, tried, well-tried, verifiedusage: established beyond doubt; "a proven liar"; "a Soviet leader of proven shrewdness"WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Related Content Daily Word Quiz: inutiae Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language