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substantiate
Overview of verb substantiate
The verb substantiate has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) 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")
2. 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")
3. realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate -- (make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions")
4. substantiate -- (solidify, firm, or strengthen; "The president's trip will substantiate good relations with the former enemy country")
Antonyms of verb substantiate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb substantiate
4 senses of substantiate
Sense 1
confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm
Sense 2
incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate
=> be
Sense 3
realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate
=> make, create
Sense 4
substantiate
=> strengthen, beef up, fortify
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb substantiate
2 of 4 senses of substantiate
Sense 1
confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm
=> back, back up
=> vouch
=> verify
=> prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew
=> document
=> validate
Sense 3
realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate
=> incarnate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb substantiate
4 senses of substantiate
Sense 1
confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm
Sense 2
incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate
=> be
Sense 3
realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate
=> make, create
Sense 4
substantiate
=> strengthen, beef up, fortify
'Cause To' of verb substantiate
Derived Forms of verb substantiate
1 of 4 senses of substantiate
Sense 1
confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm
RELATED TO>(adj) substantiative#1
=> collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying
RELATED TO>(noun) substantiation#1
=> confirmation, verification, check, substantiation
RELATED TO>(noun) substantiation#2
=> validation, proof, substantiation
Domain of verb substantiate
Domain Terms of verb substantiate
Familiarity of verb substantiate
substantiate used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Sample Sentences of verb substantiate
4 senses of substantiate
Sense 1
confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
*> Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 2
incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 3
realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
substantiate
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb substantiate
3 of 4 senses of substantiate
Sense 2
incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate
> be
=> look
=> suffer, hurt
=> be well
=> suffer
=> feel
=> stay, remain, rest
=> continue
=> sparkle, scintillate, coruscate
=> confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate
=> rank
=> point
=> want, need, require
=> compact, pack
=> rest
=> cut
=> seethe, boil
=> mope, moon around, moon about
=> look, appear, seem
=> appear, seem
=> owe
=> belong
=> cover
=> represent
=> account
=> cut across
=> begin, start
=> begin
=> stand
=> specify, define, delineate, delimit, delimitate
=> go
=> make sense, add up
=> consist, comprise
=> prove, turn out, turn up
=> account for
=> remain
=> stand by, stick by, stick, adhere
=> loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
=> total, number, add up, come, amount
=> count, matter, weigh
=> rate
=> deserve, merit
=> buy
=> shine
=> fall
=> depend
=> underlie
=> stink
=> subtend, delimit
=> incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate
=> contain, take, hold
=> cost, be
=> measure
=> hum, buzz, seethe
=> pass
=> abound
=> disagree, disaccord, discord
=> gape, yawn, yaw
=> tend, be given, lean, incline, run
=> run, go
=> figure, enter
=> press
=> rage
=> relate, interrelate
=> rut
=> stagnate
=> stagnate
=> come in handy
=> squat
=> hoodoo
=> impend
=> range, run
=> stay, stay on, continue, remain
=> sell
=> translate
=> head, head up
=> come in for
=> compare
=> fall, come
=> run into, encounter
=> gravitate
=> pay
=> diverge
=> shine
=> iridesce
=> lie
=> stand
=> hang
=> litter
=> suit
=> end, terminate
=> fit
=> lend
=> let go
=> belong
=> belong
=> wind, twist, curve
=> jumble, mingle
=> promise
=> accept, take
=> clean
=> draw
=> wash
=> balance
=> hail, come
=> act
=> test
=> seem
=> answer
=> beat
=> hold
=> contain
=> connect
=> sell
=> sell
=> kill
=> make
=> deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautify
=> consist
=> work
=> lubricate
=> breathe
=> trim
=> swing
=> osculate
=> retard
=> transplant
=> cohere
=> object
=> stick
=> recognize
=> distribute
=> put out
Sense 3
realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate
> make, create
=> beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth
=> reproduce, procreate, multiply
=> regenerate
=> clear
=> distill, extract, distil
=> derive, educe
=> froth, spume, suds
=> lay down, establish, make
=> puncture
=> twine
=> cleave
=> track
=> institute, bring
=> short-circuit, short
=> re-create
=> grind
=> generate, bring forth
=> originate, initiate, start
=> give, yield
=> bring, work, play, wreak, make for
=> raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
=> create by mental act, create mentally
=> create, make
=> realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate
=> cause, do, make
=> establish, give
=> put on, turn in
=> bear, turn out
=> create from raw material, create from raw stuff
=> construct, build, make
=> build, establish
=> assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
=> style
=> strike
=> copy, re-create
=> create verbally
=> compose, write
=> choreograph
=> direct
=> film
=> film-make
=> recreate
=> offset
=> scrape
=> produce, bring forth
=> produce, bring about, give rise
=> press
=> prepare
=> cut
=> cut
=> raise
=> beat
=> arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
=> incorporate
=> form, organize, organise
Sense 4
substantiate
> strengthen, beef up, fortify
=> vitalize, vitalise
=> ruggedize, ruggedise
=> substantiate
=> restrengthen
=> undergird, brace up
=> confirm
=> reinforce, reenforce
=> buttress
=> brace, steady, stabilize, stabilise
=> batten
=> batten, batten down, secure
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb substantiate
Sense 1
confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm
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Sense 2
incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate
=> be
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Sense 3
realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate
=> make, create
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Sense 4
substantiate
=> strengthen, beef up, fortify
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Grep of verb substantiate
consubstantiate
substantiate
transubstantiate
Grep of adj substantiate
substantiated
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