confirming

Other forms: confirmingly

Definitions of confirming
  1. adjective
    serving to support or corroborate
    synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying
    supportive
    furnishing support or assistance
  2. adjective
    indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
    synonyms: positive
    Gram-positive
    (of bacteria) being or relating to a bacterium that retains the violet stain used in Gram's method
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