Aver

Quick meaning: Aver is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner.

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, law) To justify or prove (an allegation or plea that one has made).
2. (transitive, obsolete) To avouch, prove, or verify the existence or happening of (something), or to offer to do so.
3. (British, dialectal, archaic) A beast of burden; chiefly a workhorse, but also a working ox or other animal.
4. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) An old, useless horse; a nag.

Example Sentences

Horticulturalist Richard Lighty has a form [of Trillium grandiflorum] that he avers to open almost a cerise-red.

As Coroner, I must aver, I thoroughly examined her. / And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.

Chiron, the four-legg'd Bard, had both / A Beard and Tail of his own growth; / And yet by Authors 'tis averr'd, / He made use onely of his Beard.

An Irish author avers that the Earl of Leicester, on bended knees, did likewise present to her highness another horn, pertaining to a land beast of the unicorn nature.

Word Forms

• avers
• averring
• averred
• averrest
• averredst
• averreth

Synonyms for aver

Depending on context, synonyms include swear, assert, affirm, allege, avow, say.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include affirm, assert, avow, allege, swear, say.

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