0 past simple and past participle of substantiate
1 to show something to be true, or to support a claim with facts:
We have evidence to substantiate the allegations against him.
Reports that children had been hurt have not been substantiated.
Moreover, the ' asides ' - of which the author is fond - are not always substantiated by hard evidence.
We expected that most substantiated maltreatment would precede rather than follow the onset of disruptive and delinquent child behavior in each of the three pathways.
Because the image analysis results described above are representative of the cumulative response of many neurons, we substantiated our observations using traditional individualcell analysis.
As evidence, each item consolidated and substantiated a prosecution.
They nevertheless suggest a basic pattern or cultural reciprocity between citizens and parliament that is substantiated by the distribution of electoral procedures.
Concerns about intra-articular steroids accelerating the osteoarthritic process have not been substantiated.
The widespread view, not yet fully substantiated, is that those who are entering residential care now are iller and frailer than previous cohorts.
Their stipulation is yet to be substantiated by a more thorough analysis of the reattachment process, unavailable to date.
