corroborate

From Latin corrōborātus (“strengthened”), perfect passive participle of corrōborō (“I support, corroborate”), from com- (“together”) + rōborō (“I strengthen”), from rōbur (“strength”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɒbəɹeɪ̯t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɑbəɹeɪ̯t/

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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.
   • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:

     The concurrence of all […] corroborates the same truth.

2. (transitive) To make strong; to strengthen.
   • 1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC, paragraph:

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

• corroboration

• “corroborate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “corroborate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “corroborate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

corroborate

1. inflection of corroborare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

corroborate f pl

1. feminine plural of corroborato

corrōborāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of corrōborō

corroborate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of corroborar combined with te