corroborate

Other forms of corroborate

past tense

corroborated·

present participle

corroborating·

third person

corroborates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about corroborate

What does corroborate mean?

corroborate means "establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in corroborate?

corroborate has 4 syllables: cor-ro-bo-rate. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /kɚˈɑbɚˌeɪt/.

What is another word for corroborate?

Close synonyms include confirm, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is corroborate a common word?

corroborate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with corroborate?

95 words rhyme with corroborate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.