CORROBORATE

v. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen. [Obs.] As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby. I. Watts.

2.
v.

To make more certain; to confirm; to establish. The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth. I. Taylor.

3.
a.

Corroborated. [Obs.] Bacon.