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corroborated

[v. kuh-rob-uh-reyt; adj. kuh-rob-er-it]

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verb (used with object)

to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.

adjective

Archaic. confirmed.

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Origin:
1520–30; < Latin corrōborātus past participle of corrōborāre to strengthen, equivalent to cor- cor- + rōbor(āre) to make strong (derivative of rōbor, rōbur oak (hence, strength); see robust) + -ātus -ate¹

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cor·rob·o·ra·tive

[kuh-rob-uh-rey-tiv, -er-uh-tiv] , cor·rob·o·ra·to·ry, adjective

cor·rob·o·ra·tive·ly, cor·rob·o·ra·to·ri·ly, adverb

cor·rob·o·ra·tor, noun

non·cor·rob·o·rat·ing, adjective

non·cor·rob·o·ra·tive, adjective

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non·cor·rob·o·ra·tive·ly, adverb

non·cor·rob·o·ra·to·ry, adjective

un·cor·rob·o·rat·ed, adjective

un·cor·rob·o·ra·tive, adjective

un·cor·rob·o·ra·tive·ly, adverb

un·cor·rob·o·ra·to·ry, adjective

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Can be confused: collaborate, corroborate.

Synonyms
1. verify, authenticate, support, validate.

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Example Sentences

He was in the witness chair all day and corroborated in every essential detail the narratives of other witnesses.

Rather, it's a corroborated causal theory that tells us how the body works, independent of any politics.

Nowadays, with the tech development, this has been corroborated.

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He was in the witness chair all day and corroborated in every essential detail the narratives of other witnesses.

Rather, it's a corroborated causal theory that tells us how the body works, independent of any politics.

Nowadays, with the tech development, this has been corroborated.

Yet without photographs or corroborated sightings, concrete evidence of the yeti's existence remains elusive.

The finding was quickly corroborated by another method.

The students' findings were then corroborated by district officials using more sophisticated instruments.

His testimony was corroborated by six witnesses, one of them a policeman.

Over time, further evidence corroborated my feelings.

Census data have corroborated the devastating impact on households.

The data has not been peer-reviewed or published yet much less corroborated.

But even with holes, his account corroborated much of what the agents had already heard.

The lad's story of his severe punishment was corroborated by other witnesses, as well as by marks yet upon his body.

She is also suspected of having ordered the murder of a journalist and other crimes, that even her own sister has corroborated.

Science is therefore based on tested and corroborated belief.

Some of this information is from the forums and has not yet been corroborated.

Prosecutors said his daughter's testimony was corroborated by that of other witnesses and physical evidence.

The truth is that real intelligence needs to corroborated and actionable.

The article states facts, which can be corroborated.

The initial results corroborated previous findings in similar studies.

Anecdotal testimonial evidence, if admissible under the rules of evidence, may be corroborated and given weight by other.

In some instances his version of important conversations and meetings has been corroborated by staff members and others.

The testimony corroborated the motorist's bogus story, the police said, that his accelerator was stuck at the time.

Some have been corroborated or openly acknowledged by other members of the administration.

Many of her accusations were corroborated by other probation officers not involved in the lawsuit.

The witnesses who corroborated his story were known for double-dealing:.

Many of their accusations have been corroborated by court testimony.

Instead, he said her testimony could only be considered if it was corroborated by other evidence.

Lawrence's claims of wartime service could not be corroborated by official records.

Miller later corroborated through court and law-enforcement records.

Cawley's testimony had been corroborated by a drug dealer and an informer.

Her version, however, was only partly corroborated by other witnesses.

She said they had corroborated the testimony of the bus driver that the hostage-taker shot the victims.

Dames and a motel security guard corroborated his account, the police said.

Louf's testimony corroborated details of cases on which gendarmes already were working.

The mayor noted that the threat information had not been corroborated and warned against an overreaction.

At times, they say, independent observers of the same storm have corroborated the extraordinary falls.

And they would have learned that this testimony was corroborated by ballistics findings.

On the other hand, sometimes tips remain tips because they cannot be corroborated.

Stratton, have corroborated many of the shortcomings she found.

The cellphone pictures are circulating anonymously, but multiple witnesses corroborated the events depicted.

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Word Origin & History

corroborate

early 16c., "to give (legal) confirmation to," from L. corroborat-, pp. stem of corroborare "to strengthen, invigorate," from cor- (see com-) "together" (perhaps here intens.) + roborare "to make strong," from robur, robus "strength," (see

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robust). Meaning "to strengthen by evidence, to confirm" is from 1706. Sometimes in early use the word also has its literal Latin sense, especially of medicines. Related: Corroborated (1822); corroborating (1520s); corroborative (1580s).

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