verified

[ ver-uh-fahyd ]

adjective

1. confirmed as to accuracy or truth by acceptable evidence, action, etc.

Other Words From

• half-veri·fied adjective
• un·veri·fied adjective
• well-veri·fied adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of verified¹

First recorded in 1585–95; verify + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Governments, airlines, employers, universities, and many other groups are intensely debating how and why people will need to show verified health records.

From MIT Technology Review

An LGBTQ activist in Puerto Rico regained access to his verified and personal Facebook pages on Wednesday after being banned for more than two months.

From Washington Blade

From a voters’ perspective, the best strategy is to follow verified state and local election officials on social media and on their websites.

From MIT Technology Review

Maybe that’s not the most verified science, but so many wine drinkers know it in their gut to be true.

From Eater

The verified advertiser information is pulled from your Ads account as part of the advertiser verification program that Google introduced for all advertisers in April.

From Search Engine Land

Marshal appears in many of the sources regarding these rulers, and therefore, it seems, much can be verified.

From The Daily Beast

And that was the real bad news for Young Living, because a drug has to be studied and claims verified.

From The Daily Beast

But this claim has never been verified and who holds him now is unclear.

From The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast has not verified the accuracy of either of these ads.

From The Daily Beast

In 1999, the painting was verified as a previously unknown work by Heade.

From The Daily Beast

For these reasons we keep strict and careful watch over them, since the suspicions conceived of them have been often verified.

From Project Gutenberg

The petition must be signed and properly verified, and may be afterward amended for cause in the interest of justice.

From Project Gutenberg

It has more than verified all predictions as to its usefulness, and has proved a blessing to north-west Donegal.

From Project Gutenberg

The common opinion that the sun-spot years are the hottest is not yet fully verified.

From Project Gutenberg

An anxious night ensued, and when morning came, Mrs. Maylies predictions were but too well verified.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• documented
• verifiable