Declare

/dɪˈklɛə/ · verb

Meaning

(obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
3. (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
4. (card games) To show one's cards in order to score.
5. (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result
6. (cricket) The decision of the captain to let the bowling side bat in test cricket to save time without being all out.
7. (transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.
8. (grand strategy games, slang) to declare war [with on]

Example Sentences

Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare unto us thys parable.

To declare this a little, vve muſt aſſume, that the Surfaces of all ſuch Bodies, […] are exactly ſmooth only in a popular, or at moſt in a Phyſical ſenſe, but not in a ſtrict and rigid ſenſe.

He declared him innocent.

declare bankruptcy

declare victory

declare war

declare independence

declare an innings closed

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• declares
• declaring
• declared
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• declarest
• declaredst
• declareth
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