ASSERT Synonyms

• to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

• admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about

• be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge

• beg persistently and urgently

• postulate positively and assertively

• cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity

• keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction

• supply with necessities and support

• state categorically

• have and exercise

• maintain for use and service

• maintain by writing regular records

• state or assert

• support against an opponent

• stick to correctly or closely

• report or maintain

• an assertion of a right (as to money or property)

• an assertion that something is true or factual

• demand for something as rightful or due

• an informal right to something

• an established or recognized right

• a demand

• assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing

• demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to

• ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example

• lay claim to; as of an idea

• take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

• state emphatically and authoritatively

• announce publicly or officially

• state firmly

• declare to be

• authorize payments of

• designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand

• make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official

• proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against

• declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles

• state or announce

• affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of

• praise, glorify, or honor

• practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about

• confess one's faith in, or allegiance to

• admit (to a wrongdoing)

• state freely

• receive into a religious order or congregation

• take vows, as in religious order

• state insincerely

• the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies

• the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

• the way something is with respect to its main attributes

• the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state

• a politically organized body of people under a single government

• (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)

• a state of depression or agitation

• the territory occupied by a nation

• express in words

• put before

• indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.

• give testimony in a court of law

• provide evidence for

• state categorically

• report or maintain

• to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

• stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult

• to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

• move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

• sweep majestically

• utter obscenities or profanities

• to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

• promise solemnly; take an oath

• make a deposition; declare under oath

• have faith or confidence in

• confirm the truth of

• check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard

• attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition)

• to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

• put before

• insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• propose as a candidate for some honor