All 12 Uses of
establish
in
The Bourne Supremacy
- He's on his way to meet her — God knows where — but you'd better have some solid answers, unless you can establish the fact that he's a lunatic who may have killed his wife — which I hope you can — and that there was no abduction — which I sincerely hope there wasn't.'†
Chpt 7establish = show, determine, or understand
- Among other things, the major here established the fact that she did go to the Canadian consulate.
Chpt 17 *established = proved
- With one kill like that he re-establishes the legend of his utter invincibility.
Chpt 19re-establishes = restoresstandard prefix: The prefix "re-" in re-establishes means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
- D'Anjou had been right again: with one spectacular kill under these conditions an assassin's supremacy would be established — or re-established.
Chpt 19 *established = set in place
- D'Anjou had been right again: with one spectacular kill under these conditions an assassin's supremacy would be established — or re-established.
Chpt 19re-established = restoredstandard prefix: The prefix "re-" in re-established means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
- With one kill like that he re-establishes the legend to its full invincibility.
Chpt 19re-establishes = restoresstandard prefix: The prefix "re-" in re-establishes means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
- A second meeting ground would be established.
Chpt 23established = set or created
- It took several minutes — none knew how long, none counted until the man who was unable to establish an identity for himself raised his head.†
Chpt 33establish = create, start, or set in a place
- She had wired the money to the Cayman Islands, where she knew a Canadian banker, and established an appropriately confidential account.†
Chpt 7
- Establish a benign contact as soon as you can.†
Chpt 15
- It was established that the man spoke English fluently, which he had learned from the nuns in a Portuguese Catholic school.†
Chpt 15
- The only thing we want to establish is that the dead man is not his assassin.†
Chpt 33
Definitions:
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(1)
(establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place
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(2)
(establish as in: establish that there is a need) show or determine (cause to be recognized or figure out)
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)