substantiate

Verb

• solidify, firm, or strengthen
  • The president's trip will substantiate good relations with the former enemy country
    

• make real or concrete; give reality or substance to
  • our ideas must be substantiated into actions
    

• represent in bodily form
  • He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system
    
  • The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist
    

• establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
  • his story confirmed my doubts
    
  • The evidence supports the defendant
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  realize , realise , actualize , actualise , incarnate , body forth , embody , confirm , corroborate , sustain , support , affirm
• Antonyms: 
  negate , contradict