Substantiate

Definition: Substantiate

Substantiate

Verb

1. Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant".

2. Establish as valid or genuine; "Can you substantiate your claims?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "substantiate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Note: Substantiate \Sub*stan"ti*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Substantiated; present participle verb or noun Substantiating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Substantiate

Demonstration

Verb: demonstrate, prove, establish; make good; show, evince, manifest; (be evidence of); confirm, corroborate, substantiate, verify; settle the question, reduce to demonstration, set the question at rest.

Dueness

Demand, claim; call upon for, come upon for, appeal to for; revendicate, reclaim; exact; insist on, insist upon; challenge; take one's stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to, assert, assume, arrogate, make good; substantiate; vindicate a claim, vindicate a right; fit for, qualify for; make out a case.

Evidence

Have a case, make out a case; establish, authenticate, substantiate, verify, make good, quote chapter and verse; bring home to, bring to book.

Truth

Render true, prove true; Adjective: substantiate; (evidence).

Crosswords: Substantiate

Business

Concurrently, the entire medical device industry will work to re-define its ability to submit data and information to substantiate cost-saving or improved clinical usefulness. (references)

Children

Pakistan

Since official government figures count at most 1.5 million school-age children in public and private schools and madrassahs in Karachi (of an estimated 4 million or more between the ages of 5 and 14), enrollment figures of 65 and 75 percent are difficult to substantiate. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

International observers and human rights organizations reported that they could substantiate claims that border control stations keep background records of certain individuals who are to be denied entry. (references)

Economic History

Korea

An investor wishing to effect a remittance must present an audited financial statement to a bank to substantiate the payment. (references)

Human Rights

Georgia

NGO's claimed that this regulation hinders their ability to substantiate police misconduct because of the close ties between the Procuracy and the police. (references)

Iraq

Refugees who arrived in Europe often reported instances of torture to receiving governments, and displayed scars and mutilations to substantiate their claims. (references)

Turkey

The law authorizes prosecutors to begin collecting evidence immediately to substantiate claims of torture by security officials, but in practice this occurs rarely. (references)

Political Economy

Lesotho

More than 700 foreign and national election observers concluded that the election met international standards for a transparent, multiparty election; however, the Langa Commission, a group of election auditors from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), reported that while there was no evidence to substantiate charges of electoral fraud, mismanagement of polling data made it impossible to confirm that fraud did not occur. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "substantiate": substantiate one's thoughts in writing. Additional references.

Albanian

provoj (assay, attest, demonstrate, deprive, essay, establish, experience, fit on, make good, manifest, presume, pretend, prove, sample, savor, savour, show, suffer, taste, test, try, try on, try out, validate, venture, witness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قدم الدليل (adduce), ‏جسد (body, bone, bulk, corpus, embody, externalize, frame, impersonate, incarnate, incorporate, materialize, model, mold, mould, personate, personify, reify, shape), ‏أكد (accentuate, affirm, assert, asseverate, assure, aver, avouch, bear out, check up on, confirm, contend, corroborate, declare, double check, emphasize, predicate, proclaim, profess, protest, punctuate, show, swear, underline, underscore, vouch, warrant), ‏ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, testify, validate, verify, warrant), ‏برر (excuse, justify, rationalize, sanctify, vindicate, warrant). (various references)

Bulgarian 

привеждам факти, привеждам доказателства, привеждам доводи, придавам реална форма на, потвърждавам (accredit, acknowledge, affirm, bear out, certify, clench, corroborate, endorse, homologate, ratify, reaffirm, speak to, support, testify, undertake, uphold, validate, verify, vindicate, vouch, warrant), доказвам (argue, aver, demonstrate, establish, evidence, evince, manifest, proclaim, prove, reason, show, vindicate, witness). (various references)

Chinese 

证实 (Attest, Attested, Attesting, Authenticate, authenticated, Authenticating, Confirm, confirmed, Confirming, substantiated, substantiating, substantiation), 充實 (enrich, rich, substantial). (various references)

Czech

zdùvodnit (justify), uskuteènit (carry into effect, carry out, effect, execute, go through with, implement, make good, realize), opodstatnit, dokázat (establish, prove, show). (various references)

Farsi 

ماهیت جسمانی دادن به , شکل مادی بخشیدن به , بادلیل ومدرک اثبات کردن . (various references)

Finnish

näyttää toteen (demonstrate substantiate, demonstrate the truth of, prove). (various references)

French

prouver le bien-fondé, prouver, justifier, fournir des preuves, confirmer, concrétiser. (various references)

German

untermauern (back up, corroborate, enforce, hammer home, support, to reinforce, underpin), erhärten (corroborate, harden, hardening, petrify, prove), begründen (account for, erect, establish, found, give reasons for, ground, justify, prove, set up, to found, to justify). (various references)

Greek 

στηρίζω (base, brace, buoy, buttress, rest, shore, strut, support, truss, uphold), βεβαιώνω (affirm, assure, certify, testify to, witness to), αποδεικνύω (aver, bear witness to, demonstrate, establish, evidence, evince, prove, proved, proven), δίνω ουσία σε. (various references)

Hebrew 

לאמת (ascertain, attest, authenticate, corroborate, prove true, validate, verify), ל� מק (argue, explain, motivate, reason). (various references)

Hungarian

létrehoz (create, originate, procreate, produce, to bring sg into being, to call sg into being, to effectuate, to generate, to give birth, to occasion, to procreate, to work), igazol (bear out, certify, justify, legitimate, prove, to attest, to authenticate, to bear out, to confirm, to corroborate, to depose, to exculpate, to justify, to legitimate, to make good, to sanctificate, to sanctify, to substantiate, to support, to verify, to vindicate, to warrant, verify). (various references)

Italian

convalidare (authenticate, confirm, corroborate, validate), confermare (acknowledge, affirm, bear out, clench, confirm, corroborate, endorse, indorse, prove oneself, to confirm, uphold, vouch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

裏付ける　 (to endorse, to substantiate, to support), 裏付ける (to endorse, to substantiate, to support), 証� 立てる (to prove, to substantiate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょう�"� てる (to prove, to substantiate), うらづける (to endorse, to substantiate, to support). (various references)

Manx

cur bun da. (various references)

Pig Latin

ubstantiatesay

Portuguese

provar (argue, attempt, attest, deraign, evidence, evince, fit on, make out, prove, sample, savor, savour, show, taste, test, testify, to try, try, try on, try out), justificar (deraign, exculpate, explain, instantiate, justify, legitimate, vindicate, warrant), fundamentar (found, ground, instantiate, justify, motivate, motive), documentar (document), demonstrar a verdade de. (various references)

Romanian

fundamenta (underlain, underlie), dovedi (accomplish, argue, attest, authenticate, aver, confirm, demonstrate, educe, establish, evidence, evince, furnish evidence of, make good, make out, manifest, overbear, prove, show, verify, witness), demonstra (argue, betoken, demonstrate, establish, evince, manifest, point to, prove, show), da forma (model), adeveri (acknowledge, attest, avouch, certify, confirm, corroborate, fortify, justify, seal, test, testify, verify, vouch, warrant, witness). (various references)

Russian 

приводить доказательства. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potvrditi (acknowledge, affirm, attest, authenticate, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, homologate, ratify, reaffirm, sanction, validate, verify). (various references)

Spanish

justificar (justify, make good, make on, make out, objectify, prove, rectify, test, try, try on, warrant), establecer (base, enter into, erect, establish, establishes, form, found, identify, institute, justify, lay down, locate, nail down, naturalize, put up, raise, set, set down, set up, settle, take up), comprobar (ascertain, check, check up on, make sure of, prove, test, test out, verify). (various references)

Swedish

bekräfta (acknowledge, affirm, attest to, attested, bear out, confirm, corroborate, endorse, ratify, reassert, seal, validate, vouch). (various references)

Turkish

neden göstermek, kanıtlamak (attest, attest to, aver, be contented with, certify, demonstrate, document, establish, evidence, make smth. stick, prove, shore, show, stamp, stand, support, verify), gerçekleştirmek (achieve, actualize, carry out, carry through, effect, effectuate, execute, follow out, follow through, make real, materialize, practice, practise, put into practice, realize, verify), doğrulamak (affirm, attest, avouch, bear out, certify, confirm, correct, corroborate, hold with, homologate, justify, predicate, support, sustain, testify, verify, vouch). (various references)

Ukrainian

робити реальним (substantialize), робити міцним, доводити правоту. (various references)

Welsh

gwireddu (verify). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "substantiate": substantiated, substantiates. (additional references)

Words ending with "substantiate": transubstantiate. (additional references)

Words containing "substantiate": transubstantiated, transubstantiates, unsubstantiated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Substantiate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: substanciate, substaniate, substantia, substantitate, substatiate, subtantiate, sustantiate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: abattises, antistate, astatines, battiness, intubates, sanitates, tattiness, titanates.

-4 letters: abatises, abstains, antistat, antsiest, astatine, attaints, basinets, bassinet, batistes, battiest, bustiest, entasias, instates, intubate, nastiest, nattiest, nutsiest, nuttiest, sanitate, satanist, satiates, satinets, sinuates, situates, statutes, substate, tastiest, tautness, titanate, titaness, tubaists, unstates.

-5 letters: abattis, absents, abstain, attains, attaint, attests, attunes, aunties, banties, basinet, batiste.

+1 letter: substantiated, substantiates.

+2 letters: substantiative.

+3 letters: unsubstantiated.

+4 letters: substantialities, transubstantiate.

+5 letters: transubstantiated, transubstantiates.