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. (present participle of substantiate English)
WordNet
adj. serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying]
Usage examples of "substantiating".
Thermo-photography placed her last appearance in the room at approximately the time the four 'finders' fixed on her apartment, thus substantiating op Owen's guess.
But not a single medical record has been produced substantiating such claims.
Two small substantiating details: an article from a South Florida newspaper read, `THEATER NOTE: The three-day stay of channeler CAR-LOS has been extended at the War Memorial Auditorium .
Other members of the hospital staff were called, all substantiating the fact that Pat had been delivered of twins, and that Peter had openly admitted to being the father of the twins.
Two small substantiating details: an article from a South Florida newspaper read, 'THEATER NOTE: The three-day stay of channeler CAR-LOS has been extended at the War Memorial Auditorium .
And you’ll see, there was no substantiating evidence to link him to the crime.
Hawthorne might now have given her further substantiating detail, detail McMullen had been careful to leave out, but in essence the suggestion he was now making was the one she had made to McMullen herself.