approve

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
  4. Verb.  (intransitive) To consider or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.
  5. Verb.  (transitive, English Law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit;—said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.

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