Results

Definition of establish : 1. To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
2. To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set ( a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
3. To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; - said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.
4. To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.
5. To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; - used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.

Synonyms:

earn, ca-ca, produce, fasten, kick in, construct, move over, comprise, devote, launch, hold, build up, show, shit, assemble, realize, usher, contribute, pretend, make up, live, be, rise, give, sanction, grant, stimulate, pay, instal, pee, hand, base, draw, effect, secure, put up, clear, afford, give way, cause, take a leak, progress to, underpin, dedicate, depict, demo, ramp up, yield, wee, try out, express, found, relieve oneself, represent, crap, render, register, take in, run aground, appoint, work up, gain, leaven, show up, gear up, hit, anchor, feed, pass water, turn out, politics, founder, put together, unsettle, induce, attain, constitute, examine, uproot, point, work, ease up, picture, lay down, essay, wee-wee, erect, do, present, return, lodge, start, take a crap, piss, engraft, make, promulgate, lay the foundation for, ensnare, realise, originate, test, imbed, micturate, rig, tack, bear out, plunge, make believe, action, seduce, piddle, puddle, defecate, sacrifice, chip in, gift, read, apply, create, lay out, turn up, evidence, ground, institute, get to, pitch, seat, make water, throw, urinate, practice, rest, undercoat, entrap, stool, take, pee-pee, over, strand, ratify, generate, endorse, break, fall in, nominate, cave in, impart, commit, progress, spend a penny, ready, rear, cook, get, consecrate, arrive at, try, leave, predicate, designate, open, uphold, shew, reach, sustain, record, bring in, authorize, put in, pull in, effectuate, bear witness, learn, collapse, pass, pass on, raise, strengthen, have, piece, turn over, take a shit, set in motion, march, free-base, entrench, tack together, name, prime, bring, build

enact, decree, ordain, legislate

betoken, document, determine, exemplify, demonstrate, state, corroborate, exhibit, evince, manifest, support, connote, vouch, prove, adduce, indicate, certify, witness, observe, confirm, avouch, attest, substantiate, testify, illustrate, validate, declare, authenticate, depose

audit, check, assure, ascertain, double-check, verify, find out

connect, position, implant, put, set up, build in, embed, instate, plant, root, install, initiate, locate, ensconce, graft, insert

integrate, grade, set, regulate, classify, group, program, marshal, form, harmonize, array, separate, normalize, systematize, sort, sift, scheme, prepare, orchestrate, adjust, rate, fix, shape, structure, balance, right, cast, organize, subordinate, screen, devise, schematize, schedule, frame, mediate, stabilize, control, plot, pigeonhole, stratify, type, arrange, categorize, settle, methodize, compose, unify, plan, place, collate, design, score, rationalize, class, rank, unsnarl, order, maintain, chart

pinpoint, discover, spot, post, situate, station, find, lay, unearth

Usage examples:

• The personal marks which seemed to establish the claimant's case demonstrated his guilt He was detected by the medical expert brought in to prove his identity, and was recognized by that gentleman, Dr. Barton, who would be called, and who had once already exposed him in a grave social offence- cheating at cards. - "The Mark Of Cain", Andrew Lang.
• It would be better to establish it here and now. - "The Eight Strokes of the Clock", Maurice Le Blanc.
• There was the third point to establish that theory. - "Witness For The Defence", A.E.W. Mason.