substantiate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
his story confirmed my doubts
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- negate antonym
- validation derivation
- documentation derivation
- affirmation derivation
- substantiation derivation
- confirmation derivation
- documentation derivation
- affirmable derivation
- confirmative derivation
- sustainable derivation
Sense 2 verb
represent in bodily form
He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system
Types & categories
- be hypernym
Related & opposite
- embodiment derivation
- embodiment derivation
Sense 3 verb
make real or concrete; give reality or substance to
our ideas must be substantiated into actions
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- fruition derivation
- actualization derivation
- actual derivation
- actual derivation
- factual derivation
Sense 4 verb
solidify, firm, or strengthen
The president's trip will substantiate good relations with the former enemy country
Types & categories
- strengthen hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | negate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | validation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | documentation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | affirmation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | substantiation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | confirmation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | documentation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | affirmable |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | confirmative |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sustainable |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | back up |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | vouch |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | verify |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shew |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | document |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | validate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | embodiment |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | embodiment |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | be |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | fruition |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | actualization |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | actual |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | actual |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | factual |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | create |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | incarnate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | express |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | strengthen |