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Reassert

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

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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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Corroborate 76% connected

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

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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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Reconfirm 76% connected

To confirm anew.

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Uphold 76% connected

To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

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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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Confirm 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Abbreviate verb · 78% connection

To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.

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Abbreviation noun · 78% connection

The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which…

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Active adjective · 78% connection

Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.

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Allege verb · 78% connection

To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.

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Anew adverb · 78% connection

Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew.

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Apocope noun · 78% connection

The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

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Apostrophe noun · 78% connection

The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the lette…

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Assert verb · 78% connection

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and lib…

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Asserted imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Assert

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Asserting p. pr. & vb. n. · 78% connection

of Assert

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Assure verb · 78% connection

To declare to, solemnly; to assert to (any one) with the design of inspiring belief or confidence.

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Aver verb · 78% connection

To assert, or prove, the truth of.

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Avouch verb · 78% connection

To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.

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Challenge verb · 78% connection

To assert a right; to claim a place.

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Claim v./. · 78% connection

To assert; to maintain.

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Contradict verb · 78% connection

To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; t…

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Declare verb · 78% connection

To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false.

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Depone verb · 78% connection

To assert under oath; to depose.

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