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Difference Between Ensure and Confirm

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Ensure

Ensure is an American brand of nutritional supplements and meal replacements manufactured by Abbott Laboratories. A 237-ml (8-fl oz) bottle of Ensure Original contains 220 calories, six grams of fat, 15 grams of sugar, and nine grams of protein.

Confirm

To support or establish the certainty or validity of; verify
Confirm a rumor.

Ensure

To make sure or certain; insure
Our precautions ensured our safety. See Usage Note at assure.

Confirm

To reaffirm the establishment of (a reservation or advance arrangement).

Ensure

(transitive) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
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Confirm

To make firmer; strengthen
Working on the campaign confirmed her intention to go into politics.

Ensure

(intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
I use an alarm clock to ensure that I get up on time.

Confirm

To make valid or binding by a formal or legal act; ratify.

Ensure

To make sure. See Insure.

Confirm

To administer the religious rite of confirmation to.
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Ensure

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Confirm

To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.

Ensure

Make certain of;
This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement for us
Preparation will guarantee success!

Confirm

To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).

Ensure

Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something;
He verified that the valves were closed
See that the curtains are closed
Control the quality of the product

Confirm

To assure the accuracy of previous statements.

Confirm

To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs.
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law.

Confirm

To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
Confirmed, then, I resolveAdam shall share with me in bliss or woe.

Confirm

To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale.
These likelihoods confirm her flight.

Confirm

To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.
That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed.

Confirm

To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament.

Confirm

Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;
His story confirmed my doubts
The evidence supports the defendant

Confirm

Strengthen or make more firm;
The witnesses confirmed the victim's account

Confirm

Make more firm;
Confirm thy soul in self-control!

Confirm

As of a person to a position;
The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense

Confirm

Administer the rite of confirmation to;
The children were confirmed in their mother's faith

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