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corroborate
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  • All this ... helped corroborate Enrique's story.  (source)
    corroborate = support -- typically with additional evidence or testimony
  • His mouth was twisted into a purposeful half-grin, and his eyes happy about, and he said something about corroborating evidence, which made me sure he was showing off.  (source)
    corroborating = supporting
  • Psychiatric reports ... corroborate results of OZK series tapes. Subject A responded with consistency of earlier sessions.  (source)
    corroborate = support (reinforce)
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  • Their evidence, corroborated by that of several friends, tends to show that Sir Charles's health has for some time been impaired,  (source)
    corroborated = supported
  • Mike looked around the room, as if he might see something to corroborate this, like icicles or penguins.  (source)
    corroborate = support with additional evidence
  • Your Honor, while no direct corroboration has yet been made, the minor has an established pattern of extreme dysfunctional behavior.  (source)
    corroboration = additional evidence that supports
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • So it is not surprising to find that so many accusations against people are in the handwriting of Thomas Putnam, or that his name is so often found as a witness corroborating the supernatural testimony, or that his daughter led the crying-out at the most opportune junctures of the trials...  (source)
    corroborating = supporting
  • The single corroborative statement she'd gleaned ... was that no one had heard from or laid eyes on Boomer in over a week, possibly longer.  (source)
    corroborative = supporting (of the theory)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
  • If he corroborates the story, we could cut a deal so he testifies.  (source)
    corroborates = supports (tells a story consistent with)
  • The certificates were regularly signed as extracts from the parish books, the first letter had a genuine appearance of having been written and preserved for some years, the handwriting of the second tallied with it exactly, (making proper allowance for its having been written by a person in extremity,) and there were several other corroboratory scraps of entries and memoranda which it was equally difficult to question.†  (source)
  • uncorroborated word of a sergeant.†  (source)
    uncorroborated = not supported
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncorroborated means not and reverses the meaning of corroborated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Mr. Cruncher had no particular meaning in these sulky corroborations, but made use of them, as people not unfrequently do, to express general ironical dissatisfaction.†  (source)
  • Police Sergeant Croly deposed that when he arrived he found the deceased lying on the platform apparently dead. He had the body taken to the waiting-room pending the arrival of the ambulance. Constable 57 corroborated.  (source)
    corroborated = supported (the description of events)
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