Usually means: Make abstract concept more concrete.
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  1. substantify: Merriam-Webster
  2. substantify: Wordnik
  3. substantify: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (substantify)

verb:  To give material form or substance to; to embody.
verb:  To reify or hypostatize; to treat something that is fluid or abstract as a static entity without regard to nuance or change in character.
verb:  To endow with a consciousness, will, motivation and independent existence; to give life to; to hypostatize.
verb:  (linguistics) To transform into or treat syntactically as a noun; to make into or use as a substantive.

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