Validates and Validating

verb

• Declare or make legally valid.
  • synonyms: validate, formalize, formalise
• Prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something.
  • synonyms: validate
• Give evidence for.
  • synonyms: validate, corroborate
• Make valid or confirm the validity of.
  • usage: "validate a ticket"
  • synonyms: validate

adjective

• Serving to support or corroborate.
  • usage: "collateral evidence"
  • synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validatory, verificatory, verifying