Sekirov Dictionary

unsubstantiate

verb 4
adjective 2
forms 5

verb4

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To prove false; to disprove or discredit.
- Confirming rules substantiate or unsubstantiate the presumption diagnosis and therefore are not unavoidable. — 1990
•
To officially categorize (an allegation) as unsubstantiated.
- Stepwise logistic regression analysis was used to determine whether or not there was a relationship between specified factors and the decision to substantiate or unsubstantiate sexual abuse cases. — 1989
•
To call into question; to create doubt about.
- And when they can really pick any hole in such characters, and unsubstantiate them, what a pleasure it is ! — 1878
•
To make insubstantial or abstract; unsubstantialize.
- Shakespeare's tendency to generalise, spiritualise and unsubstantiate was as great as his capacity to particularise and substantiate. — 1961

adjective2

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Unsubstantiated; unproven.
- This, however, was a case where the defendant (described in the file as a possible “fly-by-nighter”) made a quite unsubstantiate claim for the goods he was selling. — 1974
•
Lacking substance; insubstantial.
- He thought of his parents and Mary with the tenderness of separation, and felt ashamed because he had neglected his mother's letter for this unknown, unsubstantiate Martha's. — 1921

forms

unsubstantiated · unsubstantiating · unsubstantiates · more unsubstantiate · most unsubstantiate

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