To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.
To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.
To succeed; to turn out as expected.
confirm or verify by stating and evaluating evidence or by logical reasoning
To reconstruct a hand that had previously been picked up in order to verify the outcome. Typically done when someone suggests a mistake has been made.
Show, conform or verify by logical argument or reasoning, cite experimental evidence
in law: to demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt To succeed, the appellant had to prove a causative connection between the respondents' breach of duty and his own injury. proof (n)
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"
provide evidence for; "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"
prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"
Demonstrate truth or falsity by presenting evidence
A question which requires proof is one which demands confirmation or verification. In such discussions you should establish something with certainty by evaluating and citing experimental evidence or by logical reasoning.
Demonstrate the truth of something by offering irrefutable evidence and/or logical sequence of statements leading from evidence to conclusion.