| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To present evidence in support of: back (up), buttress, corroborate. See SUPPORT. 2. To assure the certainty or validity of: attest, authenticate, back (up), bear out, confirm, corroborate, evidence, justify, testify (to), validate, verify, warrant. See SUPPORT, TRUE. 3. To represent (an abstraction, for example) in or as if in bodily form: body forth, embody, exteriorize, externalize, incarnate, manifest, materialize, objectify, personalize, personify. See SUBSTITUTE. 4. To establish as true or genuine: authenticate, bear out, confirm, corroborate, demonstrate, endorse, establish, evidence, prove, show, validate, verify. See SHOW, SUPPORT.
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