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Asserts

To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

📖 Definitions of "Asserts"

verb

1
To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
"He would often assert that there was life on other planets."
2
To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
"Salman Rushdie has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work."
3
To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to
"to assert our rights and liberties"
4
To specify that a condition or expression is true at a certain point in the code.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Asserts"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
asseverateverb	(transitive) To assert earnestly, seriously, and confidently
affirmverb	To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
aververb	(ambitransitive) To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner.
avowverb	(transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
swearverb	(ambitransitive) To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
put forwardverb	(idiomatic, transitive) To propose for consideration.
maintainverb	To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
insistverb	(sometimes with (that + subjunctive) or intransitive, with on or upon) To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it.
swanverb	(intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
addsverb	(transitive) To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate.
advisesverb	(transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
affirmsverb	To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
allegesverb	(transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
arguesverb	(intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints; to controvert; to wrangle.
assertionsnoun	The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.
assuresverb	(transitive) To make sure and secure; ensure.
backsnoun	(Cambridge University, with "the") The backyard of the University.
believesverb	(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
certifiesverb	(transitive) To attest that a product, service, organization, or person has met an official standard.
claimsverb	To demand ownership of.