establish
To make stable or firm; to confirm.
Verb 4 meanings
To make stable or firm; to confirm.
To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to demonstrate.
“to establish a fact”
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English establissen, from Old French establiss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of establir (modern French établir), from Latin stabiliō, stabilīre, from stabilis (“firm, steady, stable”).
ESTABLISH at a glance
ESTABLISH has 9 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (E 1 + S 1 + T 1 + A 1 + B 3 + L 1 + I 1 + S 1 + H 4) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,165 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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