CORROBORATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corroborate mean? 

• CORROBORATE (verb)
  The verb CORROBORATE has 3 senses:

1. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

2. give evidence for

3. support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm

  Familiarity information: CORROBORATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORROBORATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they corroborate    ... he / she / it corroborates   
Past simple: corroborated   
Past participle: corroborated   
-ing form: corroborating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

affirm; confirm; corroborate; substantiate; support; sustain

Context example:

The evidence supports the defendant

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "corroborate"):

back; back up (establish as valid or genuine)

vouch (give supporting evidence)

verify (confirm the truth of)

demonstrate; establish; prove; shew; show (establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment)

document (support or supply with references)

validate (prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

corroboration (confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence)

corroborative; corroboratory (serving to support or corroborate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give evidence for

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

corroborate; validate

Hypernyms (to "corroborate" is one way to...):

confirm; reassert (strengthen or make more firm)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "corroborate"):

circumstantiate (give circumstantial evidence for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

corroboration (confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence)

corroborative; corroboratory (serving to support or corroborate)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

bear out; corroborate; support; underpin

Context example:

The stories and claims were born out by the evidence

Hypernyms (to "corroborate" is one way to...):

agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

corroboration (confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence)

corroborative; corroboratory (serving to support or corroborate)

 Context examples 

The study authors say additional diet patterns and scores that also were based on plant foods and low red and processed meat consumption corroborated their main findings.

(Healthy Diets Have Better Impact on Colorectal Cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The lady’s story certainly seems to be corroborated, if it needed corroboration, by every detail which we see before us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The results corroborate the idea that some people who are obese may have to work harder to lose weight due to metabolic differences.

(Ease of weight loss influenced by individual biology, NIH)

Additionally, data obtained from the OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite (OCAMS) corroborate ground-based telescopic observations of Bennu and confirm the original model.

(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)

Exercise intensity was not measured, but the type and frequency was corroborated by a source such as a family member or a friend.

(Rare Alzheimer's Disease Patients May Delay Cognitive Decline with Exercise, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This software correctly mapped the areas by incorporating data from multiple non-invasive brain imaging measures that corroborated each other.

(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)

However, the new WISE results do not corroborate this theory.

(NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'Doughnut' theory, NASA)

And in this letter you certainly have a very strong piece of evidence to corroborate your view.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Isabella corroborated it: “My dearest Catherine, you cannot form an idea of the dirt; come, you must go; you cannot refuse going now.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It was a terrible pause; and terrible to every ear were the corroborating sounds of opening doors and passing footsteps.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)