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SUBSTANTIATE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Solidify, firm, or strengthen

Example:

The president's trip will substantiate good relations with the former enemy country

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "substantiate" is one way to...):

beef up; fortify; strengthen (make strong or stronger)

Sentence frames:

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Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

Example:

The evidence supports the defendant

Synonyms:

affirm; confirm; corroborate; substantiate; support; sustain

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "substantiate"):

back; back up (establish as valid or genuine)

vouch (give supporting evidence)

verify (confirm the truth of)

demonstrate; establish; prove; shew; show (establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment)

document (support or supply with references)

validate (prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

substantiation (the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something)

substantiation (additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct)

substantiative (serving to support or corroborate)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make real or concrete; give reality or substance to

Example:

our ideas must be substantiated into actions

Synonyms:

actualise; actualize; realise; realize; substantiate

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "substantiate" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "substantiate"):

incarnate (make concrete and real)

express (manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait))

Sentence frame:

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Sense 4

Meaning:

Represent in bodily form

Example:

The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist

Synonyms:

body forth; embody; incarnate; substantiate

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "substantiate" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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