substantiating
- v establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- v represent in bodily form
- v make real or concrete; give reality or substance to
- v solidify, firm, or strengthen
- s serving to support or corroborate
- A 2003 CIA report found that there were, simple declarative accusations of Iraq-al Qa'ida complicity with no substantiating detail or other information that might help us .
- But lately scientists, using more rigorous tests, have had trouble substantiating some of those benefits.
- But substantiating his prewar claim that Saddam's regime possessed upwards 100 tons of terror weapons making it an intolerable threat to international security remains an important .