DECLARE

Definition:

1. [verb] state emphatically and authoritatively; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with"
   
   
2. [verb] announce publicly or officially; "The President declared war"
   Synonyms: announce
   
   
3. [verb] state firmly; "He declared that he was innocent"
   
   
4. [verb] declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent"
   Synonyms: adjudge, hold
   
   
5. [verb] authorize payments of; "declare dividends"
   
   
6. [verb] designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand
   
   
7. [verb] make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official; "Do you have anything to declare?"
   
   
8. [verb] proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against; "His wife declared at once for moving to the West Coast"
   
   

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Related Words:

• plead
• profess
• condemn
• consecrate, bless, hallow, sanctify
• account, answer for
• propose, suggest, advise
• promise, assure
• promise
• take the Fifth, take the Fifth Amendment
• sentence, condemn, doom
• proclaim, exclaim, promulgate
• profess
• affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear
• swear, depose, depone
• testify, attest, take the stand, bear witness
• decree
• opine, speak up, animadvert, sound off
• count out
• promulgate
• nolle prosequi, nolle pros, nol. pros.
• admit, acknowledge
• superannuate
• bastardize, bastardise
• certify
• call
• beatify
• canonize, canonise, saint
• pronounce, label, judge
• cancel, strike down
• formalize, formalise