AUTHENTICATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does authenticate mean? 

• AUTHENTICATE (verb)
  The verb AUTHENTICATE has 1 sense:

1. establish the authenticity of something

  Familiarity information: AUTHENTICATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTHENTICATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they authenticate    ... he / she / it authenticates   
Past simple: authenticated   
Past participle: authenticated   
-ing form: authenticating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Establish the authenticity of something

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "authenticate" is one way to...):

attest; certify; demonstrate; evidence; manifest (provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes)

"Authenticate" entails doing...:

verify (confirm the truth of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "authenticate"):

prove (obtain probate of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

authentication (validating the authenticity of something or someone)

authentication (a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity)

authenticator (one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity)