What does Corroborate mean?

Definitions for Corroborate
kəˈrɒb əˌreɪt; -ər ɪtcor·rob·o·rate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirmverb

    establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

    "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"

  2. validate, corroborateverb

    give evidence for

  3. corroborate, underpin, bear out, supportverb

    support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm

    "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence"

Wiktionary

  1. corroborateverb

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To CORROBORATEverb

    Etymology: con and roboro, Latin.

    Niccolo Machiavelli well noteth, though in an ill-favoured instance, there is no trusting to the force of nature, nor to the bravery of words, except it be corroborate by custom. Francis Bacon.

    To fortify imagination there be three ways; the authority whence the belief is derived, means to quicken and corroborate the imagination, and means to repeat it and refresh it. Francis Bacon.

    It was said that the prince himself had, by the sight of foreign courts, and observations on the different natures of people, and rules of government, much excited and awaked his spirits, and corroborated his judgment. Henry Wotton.

    As any limb well and duly exercised grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby. Isaac Watts.

Wikipedia

  1. corroborate

    Corroborating evidence, also referred to as corroboration, is a type of evidence in law.

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  1. corroborate

    To corroborate means to provide or give evidence that supports or confirms a statement, theory, or finding; to make more certain or validate.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Corroborateverb

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

  2. Corroborateverb

    to make more certain; to confirm; to establish

  3. Corroborateadjective

    corroborated

  4. Etymology: [L. corroboratus, p. p. of corroborare to corroborate; cor- + roborare to strengthen, robur strength. See Robust.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Corroborate

    kor-ob′o-rāt, v.t. to confirm: to make more certain.—adjs. Corrob′orant, Corrob′orative, tending to confirm.—n. that which corroborates.—ns. Corroborā′tion, confirmation; Corrob′orator.—adj. Corrob′oratory, corroborative. [L. cor, inten., and roborāre, -ātum, to make strong. See Robust.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Corroborate in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Corroborate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Corroborate in a Sentence

  1. Adam Schiff:

    At this point, we still can't corroborate the theory that terrorism brought it down or there was some structural problem with the plane, certainly, the backdrop is suggestive of terrorism in the sense that we have the Russian plane in Sharm el-Sheikh and we have the aspiration we've seen time and time again, not only of ISIL( Islamic State) now but of AQAP( al Qaeda), still very potent and still very determined to bring down aircraft.

  2. Michael Zeldin:

    In some sense, Paul Manafort has already testified through the admission of Paul Manafort emails, as a prosecutor, you can say Gates was credible. He's not a saint, he's an admitted sinner, he's going to go to jail for his sins, but what he told you today is true. We know it's true because of all the other witnesses who we'll go through the testimony of, and all the documentary evidence which we'll go through, including emails from Mr. Paul Manafort, that corroborate Paul Manafort testimony.

  3. Lanny Davis:

    However, as a general matter from my own past experience, it is impossible to deny or try to spin your way out of what documents say. For example, Michael Cohen in Lanny Davis public testimony did not ask anyone to rely on what he was saying alone. He provided documents that speak for themselves to corroborate what he was saying.

  4. Eddie Gallagher:

    My first reaction to seeing the videos was surprise and disgust that they would make up blatant lies about me, but I quickly realized that they were scared that the truth would come out of how cowardly they acted on deployment, i felt sorry for them that they thought it necessary to smear my name, but they never realized what the consequences of their lies would be. As upset as I was, the videos also gave me confidence because I knew that their lies would never hold up under real questioning and the jury would see through it. Their lies and( Naval Criminal Investigative Service's) refusal to ask hard questions or corroborate their stories strengthened my resolve to go to trial and clear my name.

  5. Senate Republicans:

    The four witnesses she named could not corroborate any of the events of that evening gathering where she says the assault occurred.

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