assert

Speech parts

1. assert - Noun

2. assert - Verb

Meaning

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

To maintain; to defend.

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

affirm aver asseverate maintain swan protest declare verify swear insist pronounce vindicate put forward avow state

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Antonyms

deny cork control contain shush limit

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Hypernyms

bear carry conduct declare behave insist

Hyponyms

take hold say claim tell protest

Phrases with the word

to assert assert in a legal hearing assert in court

Derivatives

asserted asserting

Anagrams

Sastre Stresa stares

Examples

Before God I swear I am innocent Source: Internet

The letter asserts a free society Source: Internet

Women should assert themselves more! Source: Internet

Abbas, as chairman of both the Palestinian Authority and Fatah, may assert that the Palestinians are only interested in a “Palestine” on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, but the messages from his own Fatah contradict this. Source: Internet

A concerted campaign is under way to assert Hindu primacy and render Muslims invisible in a rewritten history, from renamed public spaces to political and other spheres of public life. Source: Internet

A complex balance and synthesis must be found between mandate assertion, and consensual-conciliatory way of working with groups, without which, there will be no mandate to assert. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

assentiveness assentment assentor assert in a legal hearing assert in court assert oneself