Synonyms:
establish, set_up, found, launch
Meaning: set up or found; "She set up a literacy program"
Synonyms:
establish, found, plant, constitute, institute
Meaning: set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department"
Synonyms:
prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew
Meaning: establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
Synonyms:
lay_down, establish, make
Meaning: institute, enact, or establish; "make laws"
Synonyms:
establish, give
Meaning: bring about; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth"
Synonyms:
install, instal, set_up, establish
Meaning: place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"
Synonyms:
build, establish
Meaning: build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation"
Synonyms:
establish, base, ground, found
Meaning: use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation"
Usage examples
I was intent upon the recollection, eager to fix and establish it.
Kepler tried to establish some propelling force emanating from the sun, like the spokes of a windmill.
It is reserved for the practical genius of Americans to establish a communication with the sidereal world.
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect between the disaster and the atrocity.
Nevertheless, I am bound to add that some practical geniuses have attempted to establish actual communication with her.
Between employer and employed there is not sufficient pains taken on the part of the former to establish a mutual understanding.
Non-intervention then meant, as the debates show, that Congress should neither prohibit nor establish slavery in the Territories.
In one case a young man who was forcibly carried over the sea lived to make his way back to England and establish his claim to a peerage.
Moreover it does not appear that those planters who first bought negroes at the auction block intended to establish a system of permanent bondage.
This then is the first principle I establish in the science of human nature; nor ought we to despise it because of the simplicity of its appearance.