corroborate
kuh ro buh rayt
- v establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- v give evidence for
- v support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm
- Prosecution could not corroborate their story with hard evidence and therefore all charges were dropped.
- For instance, a stone found later near the Temple's likely site was inscribed with the words to the place of trumpeting, which corroborate Josephus' description of the signal .
- But three of the homeless men he chucked into the sewer survived; and one was lucid enough to identify Pichuzkin and to corroborate his modus operandi.