declare — OAT

declare

verb

1 she loses no opportunity to declare her political principles:

proclaim, announce, make known, state, communicate, reveal, divulge, mention, talk about, raise, moot, air, bring into the open, voice, articulate, pronounce, express, vent, set forth, make public, publicize, disseminate, circulate, publish, broadcast, promulgate, trumpet, blazon;

informal come out with, shout from the rooftops;

literary noise abroad, blazon abroad;

rare preconize.

2 he declared that the defendants were guilty:

assert, maintain, state, aver, affirm, contend, argue, insist, hold, profess, move, claim, allege, avow, vow, swear, attest, testify, certify;

informal make out;

technical depose, represent;

formal opine;

archaic avouch;

rare asseverate.

3 his speech and bearing declared him a gentleman:

show to be, reveal as, confirm as, prove to be, validate as, certify to someone's being, attest to someone's being.