Confirm vs Invalidate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between confirm and invalidate

is that confirm is to strengthen; to make firm or resolute while invalidate is to make invalid especially applied to contract law.

* confirme (obsolete)

(en verb)

To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.

(Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).

* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 35:

Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.

To assure the accuracy of previous statements.

* infirm * disconfirm * deny * dispute * contradict * question

(en-verb)

To make invalid. Especially applied to contract law.

The circuit court judge's ruling was invalidated by a superior judge.

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