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CIRCUMSTANTIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does circumstantiate mean? 

CIRCUMSTANTIATE (verb)
  The verb CIRCUMSTANTIATE has 1 sense:

1. give circumstantial evidence forplay

  Familiarity information: CIRCUMSTANTIATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CIRCUMSTANTIATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they circumstantiate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it circumstantiates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: circumstantiated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: circumstantiated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: circumstantiating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Give circumstantial evidence for

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "circumstantiate" is one way to...):

corroborate; validate (give evidence for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something


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