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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 for
Familiarity information: CIRCUMSTANTIATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Present simple: I / you / we / they circumstantiate ... he / she / it circumstantiates
Past simple: circumstantiated
Past participle: circumstantiated
-ing form: circumstantiating
... he / she / it circumstantiates Past simple: circumstantiated
Past participle: circumstantiated
-ing form: circumstantiating
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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