avouch

Speech parts

1. avouch - Noun

2. avouch - Verb

Meaning

To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.

To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.

To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.

Evidence; declaration.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

avow state support own say hold claim maintain argue express protest witness declare guarantee confirm
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Antonyms

block challenge dispute reject deny bottle
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Hypernyms

admit acknowledge

Derivatives

avouched avouching

Examples

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. Michel de Montaigne

Close letter words and terms

avosentan avoset avotermin avouchable avoucher avouchment