Synonyms of establishing

establishing

verb

present participle of establish

1

as in proving

to gain full recognition or acceptance of

a first novel that established him as one of the most promising writers of his generation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• proving
• demonstrating
• showing
• substantiating
• confirming
• upholding
• documenting
• sustaining
• evidencing
• verifying
• justifying
• supporting
• validating
• attesting
• authenticating
• corroborating
• bearing out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disproving
• invalidating
• refuting
• discrediting
• rebutting
• confuting

2

as in demonstrating

to show the existence or truth of by evidence

the developers haven't established that there's a need for another shopping center in town

Synonyms & Similar Words

• proving
• demonstrating
• documenting
• validating
• identifying
• verifying
• confirming
• substantiating
• upholding
• supporting
• evidencing
• buttressing
• corroborating
• sustaining
• recording
• certifying
• authenticating
• evincing
• adducing
• witnessing
• attesting
• backing (up)
• testifying
• clinching
• vouching
• circumstantiating
• nailing
• deposing
• confessing
• settling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disproving
• refuting
• rebutting
• objecting
• challenging
• disputing
• alleging
• assuming
• presuming
• suspecting
• guessing
• conjecturing
• surmising

3

as in founding

to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of

established the first school in the town

Synonyms & Similar Words

• founding
• initiating
• creating
• introducing
• pioneering
• launching
• instituting
• inaugurating
• beginning
• constructing
• constituting
• planting
• starting
• developing
• organizing
• originating
• innovating
• inventing
• devising
• producing
• setting up
• authoring
• manufacturing
• expanding
• conceiving
• enlarging
• thinking (up)
• endowing
• cooking (up)
• concocting
• fathering
• funding
• fabricating
• financing
• contriving
• arranging
• subsidizing
• making up
• systematizing
• reinstituting
• relaunching
• reinitiating
• systemizing
• refounding
• putting up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closing (down)
• abolishing
• shutting (up)
• phasing out
• stopping
• terminating
• finishing
• ending
• halting
• nullifying
• annulling
• annihilating
• winding up
• wrapping up
• rounding (off or out)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of establishing

Those visuals will go a long way in establishing him as a bona fide baddie. — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

Alpha has achieved several successful launches, but setbacks and failures have kept Firefly from establishing a routine launch cadence. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Sep. 2026

Frohnmaier, who has also made multiple trips to Russia, has walked a careful tightrope in his foreign policy role – courting MAGA Republicans at the same time as establishing ties with Kremlin insiders. — Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026

Finland has completed the assembly of its first F135 fighter engine, marking a major milestone in the country’s participation in the F-35 program and establishing a new domestic capability for supporting the aircraft. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026

Von der Leyen had previously opened the European Commission's office in Nuuk in March 2024, establishing a permanent European presence in the country. — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026

Regulators in Colorado can only force products to be recalled in a public health emergency, but regulators can encounter hurdles to quickly establishing that one exists. — Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2026

The offensive line will have to improve in the run game for Mizzou to uphold its standard of establishing the run. — Pj Green september 4, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026

The expansion of settlements crisscrossing the West Bank threatened the hope of establishing a contiguous Palestinian state there. — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026