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.
Wiktionary
supporting v
(present participle of corroborate English)
Usage examples of "corroborating".
Strangely enough, they began to turn up corroborating testimony of an extremely eerie nature.
In the context of don Juan's teachings, it was assumed that the rule was learned by corroborating it in ordinary and non-ordinary reality.
Without corroborating witnesses and testimony, there was no case at all for assault and attempted kidnapping, or resisting arrest.
True, there had been a failure of corroborating event: witnesses and physical evidence, precious little of the coincidence and plain luck that sometimes descended like a blessing on a homicide investigation.
So Hardy needed some corroborating evidence that his story about Rusty was true, and the best bet for starters seemed to be to find out if Rusty had gone out to buy a gun, right from the Shamrock, as he had said he was going to.
Sometime later, at Picard's urging, Brandt supplied a corroborating witness in the person of Richard Farley.
She was going solely on instinct now, without a shred of corroborating evidence, but it made sense.
As you will see in the following chapters, the weight of empirical fact and large amounts of corroborating evidence indicate that the former Reagan/Bush/Quayle administrations along with their unique pharmaceutical connections (see "Bush/Quayle/Lilly Pharmaceutical Sellout" below) have probably conspired at the highest levels to withhold information and to disinform the public, resulting in the avoidable and needless deaths of tens of thousands of Americans.
But if someone outside the military could furnish corroborating evidence, the Defense Force would have what they need to catch the Yuuzhan Vong completely by surprise.