substantiating
AdjectiveSynonyms:
collateralconfirmativeconfirmingconfirmatorycorroborativecorroboratorysubstantiativevalidatingvalidatoryverificatoryverifying
Open English WordNet
Adjective (1)
- serving to support or corroborate“collateral evidence”Synonyms: collateralconfirmativeconfirmingconfirmatorycorroborativecorroboratorysubstantiativevalidatingvalidatoryverificatoryverifyingOpposite unsupportiveSimilar supportive
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“substantiating” is listed under Substantiate.
Sub·stan′ti·ate transitive verb [past tense & past participle Substantiated; present participle & verbal noun Substantiating.]
1. To make to exist; to make real. John Ayliffe
2. To establish the existence or truth of by proof or competent evidence; to verify; as, to substantiate a charge or allegation; to substantiate a declaration.
Observation is, in turn, wanted to direct and substantiate the course of experiment.— Samuel T. Coleridge
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54