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Declare

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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Manner of action 46

Account 76% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Acknowledge 76% connected

To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.

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Admit 76% connected

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

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Advise 76% connected

To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.

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Affirm 76% connected

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

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Animadvert 76% connected

To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that.

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Assert 76% connected

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

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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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Aver 76% connected

A work horse, or working ox.

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Avow 76% 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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Bastardize 76% connected

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

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Beatify 76% connected

To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.

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Bless 76% connected

To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Cancel 76% connected

To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

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Canonize 76% connected

To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.

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Certify 76% connected

To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain.

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Condemn 76% connected

To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.

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Consecrate 76% connected

Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

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Decree 76% connected

An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be d…

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Depone 76% connected

To lay, as a stake; to wager.

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Depose 76% connected

To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.

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Doom 76% connected

Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.

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Exclaim 76% connected

To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, t…

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Formalize 76% connected

To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.

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Hallow 76% connected

To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Label 76% connected

A tassel.

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Opine 76% connected

To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose.

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Plead 76% connected

of Plead

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Proclaim 76% connected

To make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace.

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Profess 76% connected

To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.

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Promise 76% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

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Promulgate 76% connected

To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.

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Pronounce 76% connected

To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn…

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Propose 76% connected

To set forth.

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Saint 76% connected

A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.

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Sanctify 76% connected

To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.

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Sentence 76% connected

Sense; meaning; significance.

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Suggest 76% connected

To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

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Superannuate 76% connected

To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity.

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Swan 76% 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 76% 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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Testify 76% connected

To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of…

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Verify 76% connected

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

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Affirm 76% connected

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

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Assert 76% connected

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

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Authorize 76% connected

To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

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Aver 76% connected

A work horse, or working ox.

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Avow 76% 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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Clear 76% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Evaluate 76% connected

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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Exclaim 76% connected

To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, t…

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Proclaim 76% connected

To make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace.

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Promulgate 76% connected

To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Swan 76% 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 76% 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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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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Verify 76% connected

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

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Derivationally related 12

Annunciation 74% connected

The act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace.

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Annunciation 74% connected

The act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace.

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Avower 74% connected

One who avows or asserts.

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Avower 74% connected

One who avows or asserts.

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Declaration 74% connected

The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; expositio…

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Declaration 74% connected

The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; expositio…

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Declaratory 74% connected

Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legisl…

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Declaratory 74% connected

Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legisl…

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Declarer 74% connected

One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits.

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Declarer 74% connected

One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits.

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Synonym 3

Adjudge 92% connected

To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.

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Announce 92% connected

To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

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Hold 92% connected

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

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Say 80% connected

Saw.

general 54% interchangeable

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