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Adjective: substantiating  sub'stan-shee,ey-ting
  1. Serving to support or corroborate
    "substantiating evidence";
    - collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying
Verb: substantiate  sub'stan-shee,eyt
  1. Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
    "his story substantiated my doubts";
    - confirm, corroborate, sustain, support, affirm
     
  2. Represent in bodily form
    "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist";
    - incarnate, body forth, embody
     
  3. Make real or concrete; give reality or substance to
    "our ideas must be substantiated into actions";
    - realize, realise [Brit], actualize, actualise [Brit]
     
  4. Solidify, firm, or strengthen
    "The president's trip will substantiate good relations with the former enemy country"

See also: supportive

Type of: be, beef up, create, fortify, make, strengthen

Encyclopedia: Substantiate