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substantiatingadjective serving to give support to the truth or factualness of somethingwithout some substantiating evidence, such as a stub from a bus ticket, who's going to believe your alibi? confirmational, confirmatory, confirming, corroborating, corroborative, corroboratory, probative, probatory, supporting, supportive, verifying, vindicating auxiliary, supplementarybeneficial, helpful confuting, disproving, refuting contradictory, contrary, counter, opposing substantiatingverbpresent participle of substantiateto gain full recognition or acceptance ofsubstantiated his claim to local mountaineering fame with a photo of himself on the summit of Mount McKinley demonstrating, establishing, proving, showing attesting, authenticating, bearing out, documenting, evidencing, supporting, sustaining, upholdingconfirming, corroborating, justifying, validating, verifying disproving confuting, discrediting, invalidating, rebutting, refuting 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 arguing, attesting, authenticating, bearing out, certifying, confirming, corroborating, supporting, validating, verifying, vindicating avouching, backing (up), testifying (to), vouching (for), witnessingguaranteeing, warrantingaffirming, asserting, averring, avowing, declaring, professingdemonstrating, documenting, establishing, proving, reinforcing(also reenforcing) disproving, rebutting, refuting contradicting, gainsayingdenying, disavowing, disclaimingchallenging, contesting, disputing, questioning to represent in visible formthe artist's intense feelings are substantiated by his paintings' bold colors and broad brush strokes bodying, embodying, epitomizing, expressing, externalizing, incarnating, incorporating, instantiating, manifesting, materializing, personalizing, personifying actualizing, concretizing, realizingexemplifying, illustrating, imaging, objectifying, symbolizing, typifying disembodying to show the existence or truth of by evidencesubstantiate the need for a tuition increase with some concrete figures demonstrating, documenting, establishing, proving, validating backing (up), buttressing, circumstantiating, corroboratingevidencing, evincing, recording, supporting, upholding, witnessingadducing, attesting, authenticating, certifying, identifyingconfirming, sustaining, verifying, vouchingclinching, nailing, settlingconfessing, deposing, testifying disproving, rebutting, refuting challenging, disputing, objectingalleging, assuming, conjecturing, guessing, presuming, surmising, suspecting 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 backing, bolstering, buttressing, corroborating, reinforcing(also reenforcing), shoring (up), supporting confirming, establishing, proving, verifyingaffirming, avouching, validating undercutting, undermining, weakening |