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Corroborate   /kərˈɑbərˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Corroborate  v. t.  (past & past part. corroborated; pres. part. corroborating)  
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."


adjective
Corroborate  adj.  Corroborated. (Obs.)





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"Corroborate" Quotes from Famous Books



... second volume I propose to show in detail how much the pathologists and vivisectors have done to illustrate and corroborate the new Anthropology. ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 - Volume 1, Number 9 • Various
... feels not the slightest self-displacency for its allowing a certain unhappy but necessary part in the economy of the world to be executed, (by preference to a harmless method,) in a manner which probably does as much to corroborate in the vulgar class this essential principle of depravity, as all the expedients of melioration yet applied are doing ...
— An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance • John Foster
... To corroborate Cooper I have only to state that Jones' claim is absurd when, as a matter of fact, the Alliance was not launched until 1777, and Jones did not command her until 1779, when, as a matter of course, she must have carried the Stars and Stripes (see MacKensie's Life of Jones, ...
— The True Story of the American Flag • John H. Fow
... the contradiction, anachronisms and extravagances of the Lives we have to put the fact that generally speaking the latter corroborate one another, and that they receive extern corroboration from the annals. Such disagreements as occur are only what one would expect to find in documents dealing with times so remote. To the credit side too must go the fact that references ...
— The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore • Saint Mochuda
... they calling extras about? Get me a paper quick." When a few minutes later a sheet still damp from the presses lay before her she needed only the flaring headlines to corroborate her fears. With throbbing temples she swayed unsteadily as she made her way to a chair and sank down, gripping the paper tightly in a clenched fist. Four words were hammering themselves into her brain and heart: ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck


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