Usually means: Provide evidence to support claims.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word substantiate:

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  1. substantiate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. substantiate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. substantiate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. substantiate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. substantiate: Vocabulary.com
  6. substantiate: Wordnik
  7. substantiate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. substantiate: Wiktionary
  9. substantiate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. substantiate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. substantiate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. substantiate: Dictionary.com
  13. substantiate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. substantiate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Substantiate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. substantiate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. substantiate: Rhymezone
  18. substantiate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. substantiate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. substantiate: Free Dictionary
  21. substantiate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. substantiate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. substantiate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. substantiate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. substantiate: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. substantiate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To verify something by supplying evidence; to authenticate or corroborate
▸ verb:  (transitive) To give material form or substance to something; to embody; to record in documents

Similar:
confirm, affirm, corroborate, support, sustain, back up, back, verify, strengthen, fortify, more...

Types:
prove, demonstrate, establish, show, more...

Phrases:
to substantiate an identity, to substantiate circumstances, more...
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Similar:
confirm, affirm, corroborate, support, sustain, back up, back, verify, strengthen, fortify, more...

Types:
prove, demonstrate, establish, show, more...

Phrases:
to substantiate an identity, to substantiate circumstances, more...



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