establish

to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis.

to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.

Synonyms:

organize, form

Antonyms:

abolish

to install or settle in a position, place, business, etc..

to establish one's child in business.

to show to be valid or true; prove.

to establish the facts of the matter.

Synonyms:

substantiate, verify

Antonyms:

disprove

to cause to be accepted or recognized.

to establish a custom; She established herself as a leading surgeon.

to bring about permanently.

to establish order.

to enact, appoint, or ordain for permanence, as a law; fix unalterably.

Synonyms:

decree

to make (a church) a national or state institution.

Cards. to obtain control of (a suit) so that one can win all the subsequent tricks in it.

to make secure or permanent in a certain place, condition, job, etc

to establish one's usefulness

to establish a house

to create or set up (an organization, etc) on or as if on a permanent basis

to establish a company

to prove correct or free from doubt; validate

to establish a fact

to cause (a principle, theory, etc) to be widely or permanently accepted

to establish a precedent

to give (a Church) the status of a national institution

(of a person) to become recognized and accepted

he established himself as a reliable GP

(in works of imagination) to cause (a character, place, etc) to be credible and recognized

the first scene established the period

cards to make winners of (the remaining cards of a suit) by forcing out opponents' top cards

(also intr) botany

1. to cause (a plant) to grow or (of a plant) to grow in a new place

   the birch scrub has established over the past 25 years

2. to become or cause to become a sapling or adult plant from a seedling