SUBSTANTIATE

substantiate

(verb) solidify, firm, or strengthen; “The president’s trip will substantiate good relations with the former enemy country”

confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm

(verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; “his story confirmed my doubts”; “The evidence supports the defendant”

realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate

(verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; “our ideas must be substantiated into actions”

incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate

(verb) represent in bodily form; “He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system”; “The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

substantiate (third-person singular simple present substantiates, present participle substantiating, simple past and past participle substantiated)

(transitive) To verify something by supplying evidence; to authenticate or corroborate

(transitive) To give material form or substance to something; to embody; to record in documents

Source: Wiktionary

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Sub*stan"ti*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Substantiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Substantiating.]

1. To make to exist; to make real. Ayliffe.

2. To establish the existence or truth of by proof or competent evidence; to verify; as, to substantiate a charge or allegation; to substantiate a declaration. Observation is, in turn, wanted to direct and substantiate the course of experiment. Coleridge.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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