establish
Americanverb (used with object)
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to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis.
to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- Antonyms:
- abolish
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to install or settle in a position, place, business, etc..
to establish one's child in business.
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to show to be valid or true; prove.
to establish the facts of the matter.
- Synonyms:
- substantiate, verify
- Antonyms:
- disprove
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to cause to be accepted or recognized.
to establish a custom; She established herself as a leading surgeon.
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to bring about permanently.
to establish order.
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to enact, appoint, or ordain for permanence, as a law; fix unalterably.
- Synonyms:
- decree
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to make (a church) a national or state institution.
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Cards. to obtain control of (a suit) so that one can win all the subsequent tricks in it.
verb
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to make secure or permanent in a certain place, condition, job, etc
to establish one's usefulness
to establish a house
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to create or set up (an organization, etc) on or as if on a permanent basis
to establish a company
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to prove correct or free from doubt; validate
to establish a fact
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to cause (a principle, theory, etc) to be widely or permanently accepted
to establish a precedent
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to give (a Church) the status of a national institution
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(of a person) to become recognized and accepted
he established himself as a reliable GP
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(in works of imagination) to cause (a character, place, etc) to be credible and recognized
the first scene established the period
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cards to make winners of (the remaining cards of a suit) by forcing out opponents' top cards
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(also intr) botany
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to cause (a plant) to grow or (of a plant) to grow in a new place
the birch scrub has established over the past 25 years
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to become or cause to become a sapling or adult plant from a seedling
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Related Words
See fix.
Other Word Forms
- establishable adjective
- establisher noun
- reestablish verb (used with object)
- superestablish verb (used with object)
- unestablishable adjective
Etymology
Origin of establish
First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English establissen, establishen, from Middle French establiss-, extended stem of establir, from Latin stabilīre, derivative of stabilis stable 2
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