Sell also: demonstrate, essay, establish, evidence, examine, leaven, raise, rise, show, test, testify, try
• Verb: be shown or be found to be; examples: "She proved to be right", "The medicine turned out to save her life", "She turned up HIV positive"
• Verb: establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; examples: "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound", "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
• Verb: provide evidence for; examples: "The blood test showed that he was the father", "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"
• Verb: prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
• Verb: put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; examples: "This approach has been tried with good results", "Test this recipe"
• Verb: increase in volume; example: "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"
• Verb: cause to puff up with a leaven; example: "unleavened bread"
• Verb: take a trial impression of
• Verb: obtain probate of; example: "prove a will"
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.