declare
Announce with authority
To declare is to state something formally or emphatically: declare war, declare bankruptcy, declare your love.
At customs, you declare goods you're bringing into a country.
In card games, you declare by announcing what you'll play or bid.
A declarative statement asserts rather than questions.
I have nothing to declare but my genius.
Declare to be true
- stateCondition or mode
- maintainKeep in condition
- insistAssert with determination
- professDeclare openly, claim belief
contend · claim · avow · aver · attest · testify · vouch · swear
State something officially
- trumpSuit outranking all others
- bidOffer to purchase
- meldBlend thoroughly together
- showMake something apparent
lay down · reveal · trick · hand · canasta · pinochle · rummy
Declare officially and openly
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- publicizeMake information widely available
- notifyFormally communicate information
- informGive facts to
disclose · communicate · report · disseminate · circulate · release · issue · pronounce
Authoritative legal command
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- pronouncementFormal authoritative statement
- edictAuthoritative public command
- proclamationFormal public announcement
ruling · ordinance · directive · dictum · enactment · sanction · authorize · ratify
Reveal hidden information
- admitConfess or grant entry
- confessAcknowledge wrongdoing openly
- divulgeReveal private information
- acknowledgeConfirm receipt or truth
expose · unveil · come clean · own up · make known · betray · leak · unmask
affirm
Declare to be true
profess · contend · claim · avow · aver · attest · testify · vouch · swear · hold
announce
State something officially
show · lay down · reveal · trick · hand · canasta · pinochle · rummy
proclaim
Declare officially and openly
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- publicizeMake information widely available
- notifyFormally communicate information
inform · disclose · communicate · report · disseminate · circulate · release · issue · pronounce · voice
decree
Authoritative legal command
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- pronouncementFormal authoritative statement
- edictAuthoritative public command
proclamation · ruling · ordinance · directive · dictum · enactment · sanction · authorize · ratify · legislate
disclose
Reveal hidden information
acknowledge · expose · unveil · come clean · own up · make known · betray · leak · unmask · bare
report
Formal written findings
register · disclose · goods · dutiable · taxable · contraband · manifest · documentation · border · inspection
- expressionexpress, convey, communicate, verbal, nonverbal
- disclosurerevealing, disclosing, disclosure, disclose, divulge
- revealreveal, disclose, expose, unmask, unveil
- voicevoice, vocal folds, utterance, sound, voice box
- assertionsassertions, asserting, assert, statements, stating
- speaking upspeak up, speak out, speak freely, voice, give voice
- declare warFormally announce military action
- Declaration of IndependenceAmerica's founding proclamation
- declaration of warFormal announcement of hostilities
- declaring warFormal announcement of military action
- declared warFormally announced military aggression
- tax declarationsFormal income reports to authorities
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