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Strengthen vs Corroborant - What's the difference?

strengthen | corroborant |

As a verb strengthen

is (lb) to make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify; to reinforce.

As an adjective corroborant is

strengthening; supporting; corroborating.

As a noun corroborant is

anything that gives strength or support; a tonic.

strengthen

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify; to reinforce.
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest,/ With powerful policy strengthen themselves.
  • *1851 , Anonymous, Arthur Hamilton, and His Dog
  • *:A little hardship, and a little struggling with the rougher elements of life, will perchance but strengthen and increase his courage, and prepare him for the conflicts and struggles of after years.
  • (lb) To animate; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to fix in resolution; to hearten.
  • *(Bible), (w) iii. 28
  • *:Charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him.
  • *
  • *:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."
  • (lb) To augment; to improve; to intensify.
  • (lb) To grow strong or stronger.

    • Antonyms

    * atrophy

    Derived terms

    * strengthener

    References

    * English ergative verbs

    corroborant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • strengthening; supporting; corroborating
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that gives strength or support; a tonic.
  • * 1778 , William Lewis, The New Dispensatory (page 91)
    • The sensible qualities of argentina promise no great virtue of this kind; for to the taste it discovers only a slight roughishness, from whence it may be presumed to be entitled to a place only among the milder corroborants .
  • * Southey
    • The brain, with its proper corroborants , especially with sweet odours and with music.
    (Webster 1913) ----