Strengthen vs Corroborate - What's the difference?
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(lb) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify; to reinforce.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest,/ With powerful policy strengthen themselves.
*1851 , Anonymous,
*: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.
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*:"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.
To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
* I. Taylor
To make strong; to strengthen.
* I. Watts
Strengthen is a related term of corroborate.
As verbs the difference between strengthen and corroborate
is that strengthen is (lb) to make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify; to reinforce while corroborate is to confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.strengthen
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* English ergative verbscorroborate
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(corroborat)- The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth.
- As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby.