Validate

 WORD OF THE DAY

validate / verb / VAL-uh-dayt

Definition
1a: to make legally valid
1b: ratify
c: to grant official sanction to by marking
d: to confirm the validity of (an election)
1e: to declare (a person) elected
2a: to support or corroborate on a sound or authoritative basis
2b: to recognize, establish, or illustrate the worthiness or legitimacy of

Examples
“I’ve had to learn how to validate my own experiences. I now give myself permission to feel angry, upset, disappointed, or whatever negative emotions I’m experiencing.”
— Kiara Imani, Forbes, 31 May 2022

In one of these software systems, a large computer (the prover) validates financial transactions and places the validation computation into a PCP, so that a smaller computer (the verifier) can validate the transactions much faster.
— Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2022

Did You Know?
Validate, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, verify, and authenticate all mean to attest to the truth or validity of something.
Validate implies establishing validity by authoritative affirmation or factual proof ("a hypothesis validated by experiments").
Confirm implies the removing of doubts by an authoritative statement or indisputable fact ("evidence that confirmed the reports").
Corroborate suggests the strengthening of what is already partly established ("witnesses who corroborated the story").
Substantiate implies the offering of evidence that sustains the contention ("claims that have yet to be substantiated").
Verify implies the establishing of correspondence of actual facts or details with those proposed or guessed at ("statements that have been verified").
Authenticate implies establishing genuineness by legal or official documents or expert opinion ("handwriting experts who authenticated the diaries").