ASSERT ONESELF Synonyms

• state categorically

• to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

• insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized

• postulate positively and assertively

• report or maintain

• to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

• to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

• admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about

• establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

• strengthen or make more firm

• make more firm

• support a person for a position

• administer the rite of confirmation to

• maintain or assert

• have an argument about something

• to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation

• succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available

• compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

• be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight

• establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

• give evidence for

• support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm

• 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

• set up or found

• set up or lay the groundwork for

• establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment

• institute, enact, or establish

• bring about

• place

• build or establish something abstract

• use as a basis for; found on

• 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

• 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

• approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation

• strengthen or make more firm

• 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.

• establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

• represent in bodily form

• make real or concrete; give reality or substance to

• solidify, firm, or strengthen

• keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last

• stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals

• support against an opponent

• declare or make legally valid

• prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something

• give evidence for

• make valid or confirm the validity of

• 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