Word Meanings - CORROBORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

p. of corroborare to corroborate; cor- + roborare to strengthen, 1. To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen. As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby. I. Watts.

Additional info about word: CORROBORATE

p. of corroborare to corroborate; cor- + roborare to strengthen, 1. To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen. As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby. I. Watts. 2. To make more certain; to confirm; to establish. The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth. I. Taylor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CORROBORATE)

• Confirm
• Strengthen
• stabilitate
• establish
• substantiate
• settle
• prove
• fix
• perpetuate
• sanction
• corroborate
• ratify
• Fortify
• confirm
• garrison
• brace
• intrench
• secure
• invigorate
• fortify

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CORROBORATE)

• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to CORROBORATE)

• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• PERPETUATE
  To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize. Addison. Burke.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• PROVENCAL
  Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• INTRENCHANT
  Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• SECURER
  One who, or that which, secures.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• PROVENCE ROSE
  The cabbage rose . A name of many kinds of roses which are hybrids of Rosa centifolia and R. Gallica.
• SECURENESS
  The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• CONFIRMEDLY
  With confirmation.
• ESTABLISHMENTARIAN
  One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.
• PROVE
  To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is
• PROVERB
  1. An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. Chaucer. Bacon. 2. A striking
• CONFIRMEE
  One to whom anuthing is confirmed.
• PROVERBIALIST
  One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• COUNTER BRACE
  The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
• REINVIGORATE
  To invigorate anew.
• OVERGARRISON
  To garrison to excess.
• UNIMPROVED
  1. Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence. 2. Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper. 3. Not
• PREESTABLISH
  To establish beforehand.
• DISESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.