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Verify vs Verdict - What's the difference?

verify | verdict |

As a verb verify

is to substantiate or prove the truth of something.

As a noun verdict is

(lb) a decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

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English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To substantiate or prove the truth of something
  • To confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something
  • (legal) To affirm something formally, under oath
  • Derived terms

    * verification * verifiable * unverified

    verdict

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty —is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
  • An opinion or judgement.
  • :
  • Derived terms

    * verdictive