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单词 vouch
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Definition of vouch in English:

vouch

verb vaʊtʃvaʊtʃ
[no object]vouch for
  • 1Assert or confirm as a result of one's own experience that something is true or accurately so described.

    the explosive used is of my own formulation, and I can vouch for its efficiency
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I cannot of course vouch for the accuracy of his information.
    • While it has been a while since the original game was released, we can vouch for the fact that no good game is ever forgotten.
    • And while I can't vouch for its accuracy, the film does a compelling job of portraying Hitler in his dying days in three full dimensions.
    • I haven't read any of the Frank Miller comics it's based on, so I can't vouch for the accuracy of the big screen version or the appropriateness of the casting, but that preview makes it look like serious fun.
    • The investment bank is required to vouch for the fact that the stock is priced below its expected value in the market.
    • However, the reliability of Speedpost was certainly something that people vouched for.
    • Eyewitnesses vouch for the fact that they stayed to help the children escape but bolted from the scene when public anger turned against them.
    • I will vouch for the fact that the football program has been a positive influence on my personal college experience.
    • I can't vouch for the truth or otherwise in this story, unfortunately.
    • Gide is not known as an authority on entomology, so I can't vouch for the accuracy of his science, but poets and artists have a way of arriving at truth by unusual routes - including pure intuition.
    • Having been in a room while doctors struggled to keep my child alive, I can vouch for the fact that trust is often the only lifeline to sanity.
    • After spending an afternoon with him, I can vouch for the fact that his sense of humour is razor-sharp.
    • Veterans from all of the armed forces, the medical corps and the spies and code-breakers are on hand and, we can vouch for this, love to talk about their experiences.
    • I can vouch for the truth of much of his statement, and believe it to be wholly as stated, in every particular.
    • I can't vouch for the truth of this, but it is a sentiment I've heard repeated more than once.
    • I cannot vouch for the accuracy of any of this advice, but it's good to have it anyway.
    • I can personally vouch that he's a man of high moral integrity, and knows a worthy cause when he sees one.
    • I've enjoyed day trips to Glenshee before, but after a two-day family holiday near Aviemore I can vouch for the experience.
    • The Professor can't vouch for any of this information, but any observer of Fairfax will conclude that it all sounds entirely likely.
    • He personally delivered and vouched for the authenticity of the pair of video disks we are about to air.
    Synonyms
    attest to, confirm, affirm, verify, swear to, testify to, bear witness to, bear out, back up, support, corroborate, substantiate, prove, uphold, show the truth of, give substance to, give credence to, second, endorse, certify, warrant, validate, give assurance of
    1. 1.1 Confirm that someone is who they say they are or that they are of good character.
      he was refused entrance until someone could vouch for him
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Every person who wants to have credit, to make a big purchase, or to board a 747 has to have a list of 10 friends - people who can vouch for their identity and know how to test it if needed.
      • At a polling place in Minneapolis, a Republican worker challenged the right of a person with limited vision to have his address filled in by a person vouching for his registration.
      • Because an assistant district attorney in a nearby county vouched for H. as a good citizen, Mitcham changed his original offer from five years in prison to five months in a detention center plus ten years' probation.
      • Other women registering with the site can then contact the boyfriend or the woman who is vouching for him to find out more.
      • Identify some people who can vouch for your character and your work abilities.
      • New Jersey gaming regulators said Kerik had confirmed to them that he had vouched for Ray.
      • By vouching for him, they risk being exposed as dupes and fools who have helped a dangerous spy betray some of America's most sensitive intelligence secrets.
      • In April, he's released on bail after prominent Philadelphians vouched for his character.
      • Did you take any medication the night you're vouching for Richard when Elizabeth disappeared?
      • Jeff did not know Adam personally, so he could not vouch for his character.
      • The area is intended for VIPs and guests of MPs and Peers who are supposed to vouch personally for those who receive their tickets.
      • Dr. Samar herself maintains that she did the women a big favor by vouching for them and restoring them to a legitimate place in Afghan society.
      • Once the questions mount, experts said, insurgents desperately need prominent party officials to send a cue to voters by vouching for them.
      • Calling wounded teenagers criminals while vouching for the credibility of a TV actor later found guilty went unnoticed in the wider media, but not in black New York.
      • He had vouched for her good character, on Pentagon headed paper, during her immigration application from Vietnam.
      • Three and a half years later, he stood up in court and vouched for Laide's good character, saying that he had always found him to be ‘a very pleasant young man’.
      • The government has vouched for nine of the 12 prisoners.
      • Nor, I'd imagine, would the Hollywood guilds feel any too keen about the Academy's vouching for one of the companies that incinerated workers' pensions and jobs.
      • In the early church, adult baptismal candidates had sponsors - Christians who vouched for their good character and accompanied them through the long process of becoming part of the Christian community.
      • And at each stage of vetting, you develop references who can vouch for your character and your talents.

Origin

Middle English (as a legal term in the sense 'summon a person to court to prove title to property'): from Old French voucher 'summon', based on Latin vocare 'to call'.

  • voice from Middle English:

    A word derived from Latin vox ‘voice’ and is related to vocabulary (mid 16th century), vocal (Middle English), vocation (Late Middle English), and vociferous (early 17th century), while the verb vocare ‘to call’ appears in convoke (late 16th century) ‘call together’; equivocate (Late Middle English) literally ‘call by the same name’; evoke (early 17th century) ‘call out’; invoke (Late Middle English) ‘call upon’; provoke (Late Middle English) ‘call forth’; revoke (Late Middle English) ‘call back’; and vouch (Middle English) and voucher (early 16th century). Vowel (Middle English) is from Old French vouel, from Latin vocalis (littera) ‘vocal (letter)’. The Latin root survives in vox pop, ‘an informal survey of people's opinion’, which is short for Latin vox populi or ‘voice of the people’. When people refer to an ignored advocate of reform as a voice in the wilderness they are echoing the words of John the Baptist proclaiming the coming of the Messiah: ‘I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’

Rhymes

avouch, couch, crouch, debouch, grouch, ouch, pouch, slouch
 
 

Definition of vouch in US English:

vouch

verbvouCHvaʊtʃ
[no object]vouch for
  • 1Assert or confirm as a result of one's own experience that something is true or accurately so described.

    they say New York is the city that never sleeps, and I can certainly vouch for that
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The investment bank is required to vouch for the fact that the stock is priced below its expected value in the market.
    • However, the reliability of Speedpost was certainly something that people vouched for.
    • Having been in a room while doctors struggled to keep my child alive, I can vouch for the fact that trust is often the only lifeline to sanity.
    • I've enjoyed day trips to Glenshee before, but after a two-day family holiday near Aviemore I can vouch for the experience.
    • I haven't read any of the Frank Miller comics it's based on, so I can't vouch for the accuracy of the big screen version or the appropriateness of the casting, but that preview makes it look like serious fun.
    • I cannot of course vouch for the accuracy of his information.
    • Gide is not known as an authority on entomology, so I can't vouch for the accuracy of his science, but poets and artists have a way of arriving at truth by unusual routes - including pure intuition.
    • I can't vouch for the truth of this, but it is a sentiment I've heard repeated more than once.
    • He personally delivered and vouched for the authenticity of the pair of video disks we are about to air.
    • While it has been a while since the original game was released, we can vouch for the fact that no good game is ever forgotten.
    • I can personally vouch that he's a man of high moral integrity, and knows a worthy cause when he sees one.
    • Veterans from all of the armed forces, the medical corps and the spies and code-breakers are on hand and, we can vouch for this, love to talk about their experiences.
    • I can vouch for the truth of much of his statement, and believe it to be wholly as stated, in every particular.
    • The Professor can't vouch for any of this information, but any observer of Fairfax will conclude that it all sounds entirely likely.
    • I will vouch for the fact that the football program has been a positive influence on my personal college experience.
    • And while I can't vouch for its accuracy, the film does a compelling job of portraying Hitler in his dying days in three full dimensions.
    • Eyewitnesses vouch for the fact that they stayed to help the children escape but bolted from the scene when public anger turned against them.
    • I can't vouch for the truth or otherwise in this story, unfortunately.
    • After spending an afternoon with him, I can vouch for the fact that his sense of humour is razor-sharp.
    • I cannot vouch for the accuracy of any of this advice, but it's good to have it anyway.
    Synonyms
    attest to, confirm, affirm, verify, swear to, testify to, bear witness to, bear out, back up, support, corroborate, substantiate, prove, uphold, show the truth of, give substance to, give credence to, second, endorse, certify, warrant, validate, give assurance of
    1. 1.1 Confirm that someone is who they say they are or that they are of good character.
      he was refused entrance until someone could vouch for him
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Once the questions mount, experts said, insurgents desperately need prominent party officials to send a cue to voters by vouching for them.
      • Three and a half years later, he stood up in court and vouched for Laide's good character, saying that he had always found him to be ‘a very pleasant young man’.
      • Because an assistant district attorney in a nearby county vouched for H. as a good citizen, Mitcham changed his original offer from five years in prison to five months in a detention center plus ten years' probation.
      • Nor, I'd imagine, would the Hollywood guilds feel any too keen about the Academy's vouching for one of the companies that incinerated workers' pensions and jobs.
      • The government has vouched for nine of the 12 prisoners.
      • In April, he's released on bail after prominent Philadelphians vouched for his character.
      • And at each stage of vetting, you develop references who can vouch for your character and your talents.
      • By vouching for him, they risk being exposed as dupes and fools who have helped a dangerous spy betray some of America's most sensitive intelligence secrets.
      • At a polling place in Minneapolis, a Republican worker challenged the right of a person with limited vision to have his address filled in by a person vouching for his registration.
      • Identify some people who can vouch for your character and your work abilities.
      • Dr. Samar herself maintains that she did the women a big favor by vouching for them and restoring them to a legitimate place in Afghan society.
      • Other women registering with the site can then contact the boyfriend or the woman who is vouching for him to find out more.
      • Jeff did not know Adam personally, so he could not vouch for his character.
      • Every person who wants to have credit, to make a big purchase, or to board a 747 has to have a list of 10 friends - people who can vouch for their identity and know how to test it if needed.
      • Calling wounded teenagers criminals while vouching for the credibility of a TV actor later found guilty went unnoticed in the wider media, but not in black New York.
      • New Jersey gaming regulators said Kerik had confirmed to them that he had vouched for Ray.
      • In the early church, adult baptismal candidates had sponsors - Christians who vouched for their good character and accompanied them through the long process of becoming part of the Christian community.
      • Did you take any medication the night you're vouching for Richard when Elizabeth disappeared?
      • The area is intended for VIPs and guests of MPs and Peers who are supposed to vouch personally for those who receive their tickets.
      • He had vouched for her good character, on Pentagon headed paper, during her immigration application from Vietnam.

Origin

Middle English (as a legal term in the sense ‘summon a person to court to prove title to property’): from Old French voucher ‘summon’, based on Latin vocare ‘to call’.

 
 
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