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substantiateverb to gain full recognition or acceptance ofsubstantiated his claim to local mountaineering fame with a photo of himself on the summit of Mount McKinley demonstrate, establish, prove, show attest, authenticate, bear out, document, evidence, support, sustain, upholdconfirm, corroborate, justify, validate, verify disprove confute, discredit, invalidate, rebut, refute to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness ofMr. MacGregor couldn't substantiate that it was Peter, and not some other rabbit, in the cabbage patch argue, attest, authenticate, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, support, validate, verify, vindicate avouch, back (up), testify (to), vouch (for), witnessguarantee, warrantaffirm, assert, aver, avow, declare, professdemonstrate, document, establish, prove, reinforce(also reenforce) disprove, rebut, refute contradict, gainsaydeny, disavow, disclaimchallenge, contest, dispute, question to represent in visible formthe artist's intense feelings are substantiated by his paintings' bold colors and broad brush strokes body, embody, epitomize, express, externalize, incarnate, incorporate, instantiate, manifest, materialize, personalize, personify actualize, concretize, realizeexemplify, illustrate, image, objectify, symbolize, typify disembody to show the existence or truth of by evidencesubstantiate the need for a tuition increase with some concrete figures demonstrate, document, establish, prove, validate back (up), buttress, circumstantiate, corroborateevidence, evince, record, support, uphold, witnessadduce, attest, authenticate, certify, identifyconfirm, sustain, verify, vouchclinch, nail, settleconfess, depose, testify disprove, rebut, refute challenge, dispute, objectallege, assume, conjecture, guess, presume, surmise, suspect to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)Darwin spent the rest of his life gathering evidence to substantiate his theory of the origin of species back, bolster, buttress, corroborate, reinforce(also reenforce), shore (up), support confirm, establish, prove, verifyaffirm, avouch, validate undercut, undermine, weaken confirm, corroborate, substantiate, verify, authenticate, validate mean to attest to the truth or validity of something.confirm implies the removing of doubts by an authoritative statement or indisputable fact.confirmed the reports corroborate suggests the strengthening of what is already partly established.witnesses corroborated his story substantiate implies the offering of evidence that sustains the contention.the claims have yet to be substantiated verify implies the establishing of correspondence of actual facts or details with those proposed or guessed at.all statements of fact in the article have been verified authenticate implies establishing genuineness by adducing legal or official documents or expert opinion.handwriting experts authenticated the diaries validate implies establishing validity by authoritative affirmation or by factual proof.validated the hypothesis by experiments in 1610 |