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CORROBORATORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does corroboratory mean?
• CORROBORATORY (adjective)
The adjective CORROBORATORY has 1 sense:
1. serving to support or corroborate
Familiarity information: CORROBORATORY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Serving to support or corroborate
Synonyms:
collateral; confirmative; confirmatory; confirming; corroborative; corroboratory; substantiating; substantiative; validating; validatory; verificatory; verifying
Context example:
collateral evidence
Similar:
supportive (furnishing support or assistance)
Derivation:
corroborate (establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts)
corroborate (give evidence for)
corroborate (support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm)
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