verb
- Set up or found.
- usage: "She set up a literacy program"
- Set up or lay the groundwork for.
- usage: "establish a new department"
- synonyms: establish, found, plant, constitute, institute
- Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment.
- usage: "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
- synonyms: prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew
- Institute, enact, or establish.
- usage: "make laws"
- Bring about.
- usage: "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth"
- Place.
- usage: "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"
- Build or establish something abstract.
- usage: "build a reputation"
- Use as a basis for; found on.
- usage: "base a claim on some observation"
adjective
- Brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established.
- usage: "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church"
- synonyms: constituted
- Settled securely and unconditionally.
- usage: "that smoking causes health problems is an accomplished fact"
- synonyms: accomplished, effected
- Conforming with accepted standards.
- usage: "a conventional view of the world"
- synonyms: conventional
- Shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt.
- usage: "the established facts in the case"
- Introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation.
- synonyms: naturalized
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