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corroborate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corroborate \Cor*rob"o*rate\ (k?r-r?b"?-r?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corroborated (-r?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Corroborating (-r?`t?ng). ] [L. corroboratus, p. p. of corroborare to corroborate; cor- + roborare to strengthen, robur strength. See Robust.]
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To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen. [Obs.]
As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby.
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To make more certain; to confirm; to establish.
The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth.
--I. Taylor.
Corroborate \Cor*rob"o*rate\ (-r?t), a.
Corroborated. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "to give (legal) confirmation to," from Latin corroboratus, past participle of corroborare "to strengthen, invigorate," from com- "together" or "thoroughly" (see com-) + roborare "to make strong," from robur, robus "strength," (see robust).\n
\nMeaning "to strengthen by evidence, to confirm" is from 1706. Sometimes in early use the word also has its literal Latin sense, especially of medicines. Related: Corroborated; corroborating; corroborative.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for. 2 (context transitive English) To make strong; to strengthen.
WordNet
v. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant" [syn: confirm, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm] [ant: negate]
give evidence for [syn: validate]
support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence" [syn: underpin, bear out, support]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "corroborate".
He corroborated the account Liversidge and Broadhead had given of his movements.
SXA, nor was the corroborating material provided by Matilde Gregoire, the new Rampart Security VP.
Fellows heard corroborating evidence from the three Pinnacle sailors, who were all of good reputation in Lakehead, being sons of long-standing families.
The blanket smelled of stale traffic, the corroborating truth a laboratory of research onanists might produce in their methodical throbbing and desperation for pictures.
Fortunately, my story was corroborated by the fact that the floor valet had seen Piatti hanging about the corridor outside No.
And scan him: the features inspect Of that bestial multiform: cry, Corroborate I, O Samian Sage!
There is too much reason to believe also, that considerable brutality was shown by those Boers who carried the kopje, and the very high proportion of killed to wounded among the British who lay there corroborates the statement of the survivors that several were shot at close quarters after all resistance had ceased.
Most of the conversation in the room has been between the Zhirrzh and the unseen conduits, which has enabled me to strengthen and corroborate my earlier language studies.
In fact, the defectors were accurately reporting the state of Iraqi morale, and we had enough corroborating evidence from other sources to at least speculate.
She remembered the many hints she had given her niece concerning her being in love, and imagined the young lady had taken this way to rally her out of her opinion, by an overacted civility: a notion that was greatly corroborated by the excessive gaiety with which the whole was accompanied.
How this account of Mr. Swills is entirely corroborated by two intelligent married females residing in the same court and known respectively by the names of Mrs.
Swills is entirely corroborated by two intelligent married females residing in the same court and known respectively by the names of Mrs. Piper and Mrs.
At this point don Juan brought in the most important constituent part of his teachings: he provided me with special consensus on the actions and the elements I had perceived in nonordinary reality, actions and elements that were believed to corroborate the rule.
These reconstructions, corroborated now by his own observations, seemed all but perfect.
Iobates said, his elder daughter's father, glaring at Polyeidus, who rapidly declared that the great similarity between the old Carian pirate outfit and the new border-monster should not be taken as evidence that my testimony was fanciful: in his opinion it corroborated his opinion that the Chimera, while newly embodied up in the hills and a great fresh threat to Lycia, was a monster of long-standing Carian tradition: his genealogical visions and researches inclined him to believe her the offspring of Typhon and Echidne.