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Definition of Corroborate
1. Verb. Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts. "The evidence supports the defendant"
Specialized synonyms: Back, Back Up, Vouch, Verify, Demonstrate, Establish, Prove, Shew, Show, Document, Validate
Derivative terms: Affirmable, Affirmation, Confirmation, Confirmation, Confirmative, Confirmatory, Corroboration, Corroborative, Corroboratory, Substantiation, Substantiation, Substantiative, Support, Sustainable
Antonyms: Negate
2. Verb. Give evidence for.
Generic synonyms: Confirm, Reassert
Specialized synonyms: Circumstantiate
Derivative terms: Corroboration, Corroborative, Corroboratory, Validation, Validation, Validatory
3. Verb. Support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm. "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence"
Generic synonyms: Agree, Check, Correspond, Fit, Gibe, Jibe, Match, Tally
Derivative terms: Corroboration, Corroborative, Corroboratory, Support
Definition of Corroborate
1. v. t. To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.
2. a. Corroborated.
Definition of Corroborate
1. Verb. (transitive) To confirm, strengthen or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corroborate
1. [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corroborate
Literary usage of Corroborate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief for the Trial of Criminal Cases by Austin Abbott, William Constantine Beecher (1902)
"Evidence competent only as corroborative should not be received before the fact
which it is intended to corroborate has been shown.1 'It is essentially ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Witnesses by Stewart Rapalje (1887)
"The Right to corroborate a Witness. — A party has the unquestioned right to
introduce evidence in corroboration of a witness who has been impeached or ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"On this the court said: "Gentlemen, that is allowed, not as primary or substantive
evidence, but merely to corroborate, if it does corroborate or tend to ..."
4. The Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones (1908)
"Former statements of witness not admissible to corroborate him.—The rule has
sometimes been declared that, after an attempt has been made to impeach a ..."
5. An Illustrated Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1905)
"to give the precise words of the declarant. The substance of the declaration is
sufficient. § 11. Right to impeach or corroborate dying declarations. ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"... and if the Duke of Marlborough and his party are enumerated in it P or whether
any family tradition exists to corroborate the foregoing statement P ..."
7. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"poems, whether of compliment or solicitation, corroborate the wisdom of Plutarch's
advice. Plutarch discovered, without passing through the ..."
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