vouch

views updated

vouch / vouch/ • v. [intr.] (vouch for) assert 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. ∎  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.

More From encyclopedia.com