- collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying - serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"
Antonym: unsupportive (indirect, via supportive)
- confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm - establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun substantiation1, noun substantiation2
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate - represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
--2 is one way to be
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate - make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions"
--3 is one way to make, create
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- substantiate - solidify, firm, or strengthen; "The president's trip will substantiate good relations with the former enemy country"
--4 is one way to strengthen, beef up, fortify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something