Usually means: Demonstrates the truth or validity.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. proves: Merriam-Webster
  2. proves: Collins English Dictionary
  3. proves: Vocabulary.com
  4. Proves, proves: Wordnik
  5. proves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. proves: Wiktionary
  7. proves: Dictionary.com
  8. proves: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. proves: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proves: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proves: Idioms

(Note: See prove as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prove)

verb:  (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out.
verb:  (intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.
verb:  (copulative) To turn out to be.
verb:  (transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.
verb:  (transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To experience.
verb:  (printing, dated, transitive) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
verb:  (homeopathy) To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
noun:  (baking) The process of dough proofing.
verb:  Alternative form of proof (“allow (dough) to rise; test the activeness of (yeast); pressure-test (a firearm)”) [(transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To proofread.]
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