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Affirm

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.

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Broader term 4

Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Declare 76% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Assure 76% connected

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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Attest 76% connected

To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record.

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Back 76% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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Claim 76% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Confirm 76% connected

To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

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Declare 76% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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Defend 76% connected

To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.

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Demonstrate 76% connected

To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.

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Document 76% connected

That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

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Establish 76% connected

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Maintain 76% connected

To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintai…

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Protest 76% connected

To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.

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Prove 76% connected

To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

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Reaffirm 76% connected

To affirm again.

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Reassert 76% connected

To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so.

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Shew 76% connected

See Show.

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Validate 76% connected

To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.

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Verify 76% connected

To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.

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Vouch 76% connected

To call; to summon.

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Affirmation 74% connected

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.

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Affirmation 74% connected

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.

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Affirmative 74% connected

Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.

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Affirmative 74% connected

Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.

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Affirmatory 74% connected

Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative.

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Affirmatory 74% connected

Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative.

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Asserter 74% connected

One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor.

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Asserter 74% connected

One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor.

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Avowal 74% connected

An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles.

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Avowal 74% connected

An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles.

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Sustainable 74% connected

Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.

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Sustainable 74% connected

Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.

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Synonym 11

Assert 92% connected

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

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Aver 92% connected

A work horse, or working ox.

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Avow 92% connected

To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.

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Confirm 92% connected

To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

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Corroborate 92% connected

To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.

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Substantiate 92% connected

To make to exist; to make real.

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Support 92% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Sustain 92% connected

To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

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Swan 92% connected

Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and stro…

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Swear 92% connected

To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also…

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Verify 92% connected

To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.

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