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establish

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1. establish - Adjective

2. establish - Verb

Meaning

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.

To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.

To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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base a claim on some observation Source: Internet

build a reputation Source: Internet

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The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound Source: Internet

The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture Source: Internet

make laws Source: Internet

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