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corroborate

Syllables: cor·rob·o·rate/kəˈɹɒbəɹeɪ̯t//kəˈɹɑbəɹeɪ̯t/

corroborate verb: to confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.

Verb

corroborate (third-person singular simple present corroborates, present participle corroborating, simple past and past participle corroborated)

  1. (transitive) To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
    • The concurrence of all […]corroborates the same truth.1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC
    • First, the fireman may be killed. Second, he may not notice the signal at all. Third, in any case he will loyally corroborate his driver and the good old jury will discount that.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados
  2. (transitive) To make strong; to strengthen.
    • As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby.1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC

Adjective

UK/kəˈrɒbərət/

corroborate (comparative more corroborate, superlative most corroborate)

  1. (obsolete) Corroborated.
    • There is no Truſting to the Force of Nature, nor to the Brauery of Words; except it be Corroborate by Cuſtome.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Custome and Education”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 131
  2. (obsolete) Vigorous, grown strong.
    • But how unjust this traducement is (if you will reduce things from popularity of opinion to measure of reason) may appear in that we see men are more curious what they put into a new vessel than into a vessel seasoned, and what mould they lay about a young plant than about a plant corroborate; […]a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, “Of the Advancement of Learning”, in James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, editors, The Works of Francis Bacon, […], volume III, London...

corroborate meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam

corroborate in Tamil

உறுதிப்படுத்து, சான்று நிலை நிறுத்து, சான்றுறுதி செய், ஊர்ஜிதப் படுத்து, ஒத்துரை

corroborate in Marathi

To confirm or support with additional evidence
पुष्टी देणे puṣṭī deṇe, परिपोष करणे paripoṣ karṇe

corroborate in Bengali

সমর্থিত হওয়া

corroborate in Malayalam

confirm, endorse, verify
ദൃഢീകരിക്കുക, സമർത്ഥിക്കുക, ശക്തിപ്പെടുത്തുക, പുതിയ തെളിവിലൂടെ ഉറപ്പാക്കുക, ഉറപ്പിക്കുക, അരചിടുക
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corroborate in Kannada
ಗಟ್ಟಿಮಾಡು, ನನ್ನಿಮಾಡು, ಬೆಂಬಲಿಸು, ದೃಢೀಕರಿಸು

Examples of corroborate in a sentence

  • Further corroborating these findings, Vajaria el al 11 also found expansion in interfirst premolar distances.
  • And there was Talbot's great diseased appetite to corroborate a belief that expatriate educationists ate hoggishly.
  • In contrast, our molecular data show that Petrocosmea consists of five clades corroborated by morphological data as prementioned.

All 17 example sentences with corroborate

Forms of corroborate

Verb
third-person singular presentcorroborates
present participlecorroborating
past participlecorroborated
pastcorroborated
Adjective
comparativemore corroborate
superlativemost corroborate

Past tense of corroborate: corroborated

Origin of corroborate

First attested in the 1530s; borrowed from Latin corrōborātus (“strengthened”), perfect passive participle of corrōborō (“to support, corroborate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- (“together”) + rōborō (“to strengthen”), from rōbur, rōboris (“strength”). Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English, otherwise archaic.

Words formed from corroborate

Questions about corroborate

What does corroborate mean?
Corroborate means to confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
What is corroborate in Tamil?
Corroborate in Tamil is உறுதிப்படுத்து, சான்று நிலை நிறுத்து, சான்றுறுதி செய். See Corroborate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is corroborate?
Corroborate can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce corroborate?
Corroborate is pronounced /kəˈɹɒbəɹeɪ̯t/ (UK).
What is the past tense of corroborate?
The past tense of corroborate is corroborated.

Words near corroborate in the dictionary

  1. corrobborees
  2. corroborability
  3. corroborable
  4. corroborant
  5. corroborants
  6. corroborate
  7. corroborated
  8. corroborates
  9. corroborateth
  10. corroborating
  11. corroboration

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: corroborate (page history and authors); corroborate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corroborate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corroborate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); corroborate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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