Corroborate

Word CORROBORATE
Character 11
Hyphenation cor rob o rate
Pronunciations /kəˈɹɒbəɹeɪ̯t/

Definitions and meanings of "Corroborate"

What do we mean by corroborate?

To strengthen or support with other evidence; make more certain. synonym: confirm. transitive verb

To strengthen; make strong, or impart additional strength to: as, to corroborate the judgment, will, or habits.

To confirm; make more certain; give additional assurance of: as, the news is corroborated by recent advices.

Corroborated; strengthened; confirmed.

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

To make more certain; to confirm; to establish. transitive verb

Corroborated. adjective

To confirm, strengthen or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch. verb

Support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm verb

Give evidence for verb

Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts verb

To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.

To make strong; to strengthen.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Corroborate

The word "corroborate" in example sentences

These terms corroborate and identify themselves with the most ancient of traditionary customs, long ere princes had monopolised the surface of coined money with their own images and superscriptions. ❋ John Roby (1821)

Collaborate/Corroborate: To collaborate is to work closely with others; to corroborate is to confirm the truth of something. ❋ Unknown (2010)

* '' 'Collaborate/Corroborate' '': To collaborate is to work closely with others; to corroborate is to confirm the truth of something. ❋ Unknown (2010)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The LAPD police chief said that they are looking for the coroner ` s report to corroborate the cause of death -- "corroborate," which clearly implies that they have a strong belief that something was involved, and that something in this case is clearly drug abuse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One historian who has actually written extensively on the response to Katrina, Douglas Brinkley, told me today that, you know, it does kind of corroborate a lot of the information he got that the White House, while they may not have sought to drag Michael Brown through the mud, certainly was happy that he was at least deflecting some criticism from them. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As an old neighbor of mine said when he painted the top board of his fence green, he wanted it "to kind of corroborate with his blinds." ❋ Bill Nye (1873)

Another serious procedural flaw in your Report is your reliance on hearsay and accusations made anonymously to "corroborate" your allegations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is entirely unclear just what North did to "corroborate" US military claims of Taliban deaths, but his efforts to bolster the military stance appear about to go down in the same flames that killed 90 Afghan civilians. ❋ Unknown (2008)

\ "For you, to corroborate is to explain, while for sorcerers is to witness indescribable things without subterfuge or mental tricks. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"corroborate," but I did indeed try smoothing it all over my legs for a few days. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Afghanistan twice to collect affidavits for detainees, locate witnesses, find employment records, exonerating photographic evidence or anything else that could help corroborate their stories. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a ... service in 1998 saying that bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Sheik" Omar Abdel Rahman and other U. S.-held extremists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So despite calling the hearings on the basis that American Muslims are full of radicals refusing to cooperate with law enforcement, King isn't calling a single member of the law enforcement community to corroborate that claim. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Highlight its strengths and its gaps; invite them to edit it; corroborate its accounts; assign a piece for submission or updating. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For Obama to veto this resolution now would surely corroborate the perception of him as a cowering and ineffectual president who cannot withstand the political pressure that Israel exerts domestically in the US. ❋ Susan Abulhawa (2011)

The managing editor told HuffPost there was nothing to corroborate the one-sentence death notice and that there's no record of the email sent to the paper alleging Powell's passing. ❋ Eliot Nelson (2011)

Any of his works corroborate this and this one is no exception. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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