Prove
Prove
, v. i. 1. To make trial; to essay.[1913 Webster]
2. To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine
proves salutary; the report
proves false. "The case proves mortal."
Arbuthnot.
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So life a winter's morn may prove.Keble.
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3. To succeed; to turn out as expected.
[Obs.] "The experiment proved not."
Bacon.
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