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- pronunciation:
- dih
kleIr
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
declares, declaring, declared |
| definition 1: |
to proclaim or formally announce (the fact of something happening or existing).
Congress has declared war.She declared her candidacy for the office of governor.- synonyms:
- announce, proclaim, pronounce
- similar words:
- adjudge, allege, call, decree, plead, promulgate
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| definition 2: |
to formally proclaim (someone or something) as being a specified way or being a specified thing.
The court declared the ban to be unconstitutional.The panel declared the father unfit to retain custody of his children.The judges declared her the winner.- similar words:
- rule
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| definition 3: |
to state strongly or with emphasis.
He declared that he was innocent.The rebel leader declared that all power was now his.- synonyms:
- affirm, allege, assert, avouch, contend, insist, maintain, state
- similar words:
- aver, avow, certify, profess, protest, say, testify
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| definition 4: |
to reveal or make manifest.
He declared his affections for her in a letter.- synonyms:
- disclose, express, manifest, reveal
- similar words:
- announce, divulge, evidence, evince, say
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| definition 5: |
to make a full statement of (goods or income to be taxed).
You have to declare all of your income on your tax return.The customs officer asked if she had any items to declare.- synonyms:
- disclose
- similar words:
- list, state
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| related words: |
claim, confess, contend, deliver, depose, disclose, express, insist, leak, maintain, own, pass, phrase, proclaim, purport, put, render, resound, signify, sing, sound, submit, swear, vow |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to make a declaration.
- synonyms:
- pronounce
- similar words:
- decree, ordain, predicate, protest, testify
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| definition 2: |
to proclaim one's opinion or position (usu. fol. by "for" or "against").
He declared against Prohibition from its earliest days.- similar words:
- protest
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| related words: |
argue, depose, inform, own, plead, profess, swear, vow |
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