Ray was willing to corroborate Gary's story, but the police were still unconvinced that either of them were telling the truth.
Source: tatoeba (2008)
Corroborate
//kəˈɹɑbəɹeɪ̯t//
Synonyms for "corroborate" (43 found)
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Related words (21)
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9 entriesTranslations
56 translations across 30 languages.
Belarusian
2 entries- пацве́рдзіць verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- пацвярджа́ць verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Bulgarian
4 entries- засилвам verb (To make strong; to strengthen)
- подкрепям verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- потвърждавам verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- укрепвам verb (To make strong; to strengthen)
Catalan
1 entries- corroborar verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 佐證 /佐证 verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Danish
1 entries- bekræfte verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Dutch
1 entries- onderbouwen verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Esperanto
1 entries- konfirmi verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Finnish
1 entries- vahvistaa verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
French
1 entries- corroborer verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
German
4 entries- bekräftigen verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- bestätigen verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- stützen verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- untermauern verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Hungarian
1 entries- megerősít verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Icelandic
1 entries- styrkja verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Irish
1 entries- neartaigh le verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Italian
2 entries- corroborare verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- corroborare verb (To make strong; to strengthen)
Latin
1 entries- corrōborō verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Lithuanian
1 entries- patvirtinti verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Manx
2 entries- co-niartaghey verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- co-niartey verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Marathi
2 entries- परिपोष करणे verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- पुष्टी देणे verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- bekrefte verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- styrke verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- underbygge verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- bekrefte verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- styrke verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- underbygge verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Polish
4 entries- potwierdzać verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- potwierdzić verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- umacniać verb (To make strong; to strengthen)
- umocnić verb (To make strong; to strengthen)
Portuguese
1 entries- corroborar verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Romanian
3 entries- adeveri verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- corobora verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- susține verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Russian
3 entries- подкреплять verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- подтверди́ть verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- подтвержда́ть verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Slovene
1 entries- podpreti verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Spanish
1 entries- corroborar verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Swedish
3 entries- bekräfta verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- bestyrka verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- styrka verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Turkish
1 entries- delille desteklemek verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Ukrainian
4 entries- підкрі́плювати verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- підкріпи́ти verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- підтве́рджувати verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
- підтве́рдити verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Welsh
1 entries- ategu verb (To confirm or support with additional evidence)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Your story doesn't corroborate what I've heard before.
Source: tatoeba (16851)
That being the case, instead of elaborating on these two reports, I should like to say a few words to corroborate the arguments behind them.
Source: tatoeba (399677)
There was no one who could corroborate Sami's alibi.
Source: tatoeba (5872020)
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