VERIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does verified mean? 

• VERIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective VERIFIED has 1 sense:

1. proved to be true

  Familiarity information: VERIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERIFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Proved to be true

Context example:

a verified claim

Similar:

proved; proven (established beyond doubt)

 Context examples 

The researchers first noted the volcanic activity in 2007 and verified its existence again in 2014.

(Previously unsuspected volcanic activity confirmed under West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Pine Island Glacier, National Science Foundation)

Now, one of the key components of the planet's clouds has finally been verified.

(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)

Of roughly 50 near-Earth size habitable zone candidates detected by Kepler, more than 30 have been verified.

(NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates, NASA)

EXAMPLE(S): On-hold, Accepted, Rejected, Abstracted, Abstraction Verified, Abstraction not verified.

(Document Version Workflow Status Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The scales were small, making necessary many weighings, and Messner with precise care verified each weighing.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I need say nothing here, on the first head, because nothing can show better than my history whether that prediction was verified or falsified by the result.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

NASA's Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets — the single largest finding of planets to date.

(Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered, NASA)

A tentative proposal made to explain certain observations or facts that requires further investigation to be verified.

(Hypothesis, NCI Dictionary)

I dare say you have heard those charming lines of the poet, We must not allow them to be verified in sweet Jane Fairfax.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Catherine blushed and disclaimed, and the gentleman's predictions were verified.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)