corroborate

[Cor*rob·o*rate]

To corroborate is to back someone else’s story. If you swear to your teacher that you didn't throw the spitball, and your friends corroborate your story by promising that you were concentrating on math homework, she might actually believe you.

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To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.

Verb
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"

Verb
give evidence for

Verb
support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence"


v. t.
To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.

v. t.
To make more certain; to confirm; to establish.

a.
Corroborated.


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.] 1. 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.
2. To make more certain; to confirm; to establish.
The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth.

Corroborate

Cor*rob"o*rate (-r?t), a. Corroborated. [Obs.] Bacon.

To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.

Corroborated.

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