0 present participle of substantiate --
1 to show something to be true, or to support a claim with facts: --
Reports that children had been hurt have not been substantiated.
We have evidence to substantiate the allegations against him.
Research undertaken for this paper did not uncover evidence substantiating or refuting the claim, although the argument here does not hinge on this fact.
To make the distinction without substantiating the existence of both types of representation with data would be little more than paying lip service to the more complete models.
Again data on per hectare loss of soil needs substantiating.
We believe that these measures are more predictive of people's actual behaviour, lending greater support for our findings and allowing us to go even further in substantiating the minority-majority distinction.
In such cases it is contended that the birth date of a student is recorded as given by the guardian without substantiating it with any medical certificate or municipal record.
In this view, the ability of public officials to diagnose problems and formulate alternative policy solutions, plays a critical part in substantiating state autonomy.
The book, therefore, suffers in many places from a lack of evidence in substantiating its central claims.
These gave essentially the same reading of pressure, thereby substantiating that the air movement within the model was sufficiently small to be unimportant.
