Prove vs. Suggest — What's the Difference?

To establish the truth or validity of (something) by the presentation of argument or evidence

Put forward for consideration

To demonstrate the reality of (something)

Cause one to think that (something) exists or is the case

To show (oneself) to be what is specified or to have a certain characteristic

To offer for consideration or action; propose

To establish by the required amount of evidence

To express or say indirectly

To establish the authenticity of (a will).

To make evident indirectly; intimate or imply

To demonstrate the validity of (a hypothesis or proposition).

To bring or call to mind by logic or association; evoke

To verify (the result of a calculation).

To serve as or provide a motive for; prompt or demand

To subject (a gun, for instance) to a test.

(transitive) To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something).

(Printing) To make a sample impression of (type); proof.

(transitive) To cause one to suppose (something); to bring to one's mind the idea (of something).

(Archaic) To find out or learn (something) through experience.

(transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it

To be shown to be such; turn out

To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.

(transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.

To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

(intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.

To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.

(copulative) To turn out to be.

To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.

(transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.

To inform secretly.

(transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.

To make suggestions; to tempt.

To experience.

Make a proposal, declare a plan for something

To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.

Imply as a possibility;

(homeopathy) To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.

Drop a hint; intimate by a hint

(baking) The process of dough proofing.

Suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine;

To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.

Call to mind or evoke

To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.

To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.

To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.

To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.

To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.

To make trial; to essay.

To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.

To succeed; to turn out as expected.

Be shown or be found to be;

Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment;

Provide evidence for;

Prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof

Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;

Increase in volume;

Cause to puff up with a leaven;

Take a trial impression of

Obtain probate of;