| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. Archaic. To participate in or partake of personally: experience, feel, go through, have, know, meet1 (with), see, suffer, taste (of), undergo. Idioms: run up against. See PARTICIPATE. 2. To establish as true or genuine: authenticate, bear out, confirm, corroborate, demonstrate, endorse, establish, evidence, show, substantiate, validate, verify. See SHOW, SUPPORT. 3. To subject to a procedure that ascertains effectiveness, value, proper function, or other quality: assay, check, essay, examine, test, try, try out. Idioms: bring to the test, make trial of, put to the proof (or test) . See INVESTIGATE.
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