- collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying - serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"
Antonym: unsupportive (indirect, via supportive)
- verify - confirm the truth of; "Please verify that the doors are closed"; "verify a claim"
--1 is one way to confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun verification1, noun verifier1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- control, verify - verify or regulate by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard, of scientific experiments; "Are you controlling for the temperature?"
--2 is one way to test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- verify - attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition)
--3 is one way to confirm, reassert
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun verification2
Somebody ----s something
- affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear - to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"
--4 is one way to declare
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE