The Collaborative International Dictionary
Substantiate \Sub*stan"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Substantiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Substantiating.]
To make to exist; to make real.
--Ayliffe.-
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: substantiate)
WordNet
adj. supported or established by evidence or proof; "the substantiated charges"; "a verified case" [syn: corroborated, verified]
Usage examples of "substantiated".
She made no comments, such as her initial suspicions about the heavyworlders' unsavory activities of that fateful rest day, for the mutiny was an undeniable fact, emphatically substantiated by the time gap between the two groups.
I think we have presumed too much from too little substantiated information -' Ashiant missed the look Thian received from the others, '.
Capiam hoped that the man had actually had the plague, not some deep cold, and his hope was substantiated by the facts that K'lon had a close friend in plague-stricken Igen, and that the Weyr healer, Berchar, and his green rider weyrmate were grievously ill at Fort Weyr.