Synonyms for assert
əˈsɜrtas·sert

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1. assertverb

   Synonyms:
   aver, asseverate, affirm

2. assertverb

   To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

   he would often assert his beliefs to us

   Synonyms:
   asseverate, affirm, aver

3. assertverb

   To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.

   Synonyms:
   aver, affirm, asseverate

4. assertverb

   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.

   The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.

   Synonyms:
   affirm, aver, asseverate

5. assertverb

   to make true; to make equal to 1.

   Synonyms:
   asseverate, aver, affirm

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1. assert

   To allege is formally to state as true or capable of proof, but without proving. To adduce, literally to lead to, is to bring the evidence up to what has been alleged. Adduce is a secondary word; nothing can be adduced in evidence till something has been stated or alleged, which the evidence is to sustain. An alleged fact stands open to question or doubt. To speak of an alleged document, an alleged will, an alleged crime, is either to question, or at least very carefully to refrain from admitting, that the document exists, that the will is genuine, or that the crime has been committed. Alleged is, however, respectful; to speak of the "so-called" will or deed, etc., would be to cast discredit upon the document, and imply that the speaker was ready to brand it as unquestionably spurious; alleged simply concedes nothing and leaves the question open. To produce is to bring forward, as, for instance, papers or persons. Adduce is not used of persons; of them we say introduce or produce. When an alleged criminal is brought to trial, the counsel on either side are accustomed to advance a theory, and adduce the strongest possible evidence in its support; they will produce documents and witnesses, cite precedents, assign reasons, introduce suggestions, offer pleas. The accused will usually assert his innocence. Compare STATE.

   Synonyms:
   adduce, advance, affirm, allege, asseverate, assign, aver, cite, claim, declare, introduce, maintain, offer, plead, produce, say, state

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1. assert

   Synonyms:
   asseverate, declare, pronounce, depose, maintain, statement, avow, avouch, affirm, allege, protest, claim

   Antonyms:
   deny, contradict, contravene, waive, abandon

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1. assert, asseverate, maintainverb

   state categorically

   Synonyms:
   asseverate, affirm, keep, conserve, observe, wield, hold, sustain, aver, keep up, avow, defend, put forward, swan, swear, maintain, insist, exert, uphold, preserve, verify

2. affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swearverb

   to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

   "Before God I swear I am innocent"

   Synonyms:
   vagabond, depose, put forward, ramble, support, range, trust, bank, stray, rove, roll, rely, say, cast, imprecate, avouch, insist, wander, control, corroborate, confirm, affirm, swan, curse, blaspheme, tramp, avow, allege, verify, asseverate, aver, maintain, drift, sustain, substantiate, depone, roam, swear, cuss

3. assert, put forwardverb

   insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized

   "Women should assert themselves more!"

   Synonyms:
   put up, aver, invoke, call down, affirm, insist, nominate, bring up, state, arouse, stir, submit, posit, avow, put forward, swan, conjure, asseverate, evoke, swear, maintain, call forth, raise, verify, conjure up

4. insist, assertverb

   assert to be true

   "The letter asserts a free society"

   Synonyms:
   swear, importune, asseverate, maintain, insist, verify, take a firm stand, put forward, swan, affirm, avow, aver

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1. assertverb

   Synonyms:
   affirm, declare, pronounce, express, aver, allege, asseverate, protest, avow, predicate, lay down

2. assertverb

   Synonyms:
   vindicate, defend, claim, maintain, uphold

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1. assertverb

   Synonyms:
   affirm, state, say, aver, predicate, asseverate, maintain, declare

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1. List of paraphrases for "assert":

   affirm, claim, argue, enforce, say, vindicate, reaffirm, confirm

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1. Pete Buttigieg:

   Democrats inference that Donald Trump is guilty because Donald Trump does not voluntarily permit Donald Trump deputies to testify hasrankled Republicans, who assert the importance of the presumption of innocence. Joe Biden then knocked Trumps argument that less than half of Americans support Joe Biden removal from office. Hes dumbing down the presidency beyond what I even thought Joe Biden would do, Joe Biden said. We need to restore the integrity of the presidency. Democratic presidential candidates from left, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend Mayor South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and businessman Tom Steyer stand on stage during a Democratic presidential primary debate Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, in Los Angeles. ( Associated Press) Later, Democrats largely defended Trumps breakthrough U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which White House passed hours earlier. However, candidatesrailed against Trumps economy, despite multipleindicators that the economy is doing well. The U.S. unemployment rate stands at a half-century low of 3.5 percent, backed by consistently strong job gains in recent months that have largely squelched fears of a recession that had taken hold over the summer. This economy is not working for most of us, the middle class is getting killed, Joe Biden added. Joe Biden said the economy was not.

2. Bennie Thompson:

   It’s important to note that even if a President has formally invoked executive privilege regarding testimony of a witness—which is not the case here—that witness has the obligation to sit down under oath and assert the privilege question by question, but these witnesses didn’t even bother to show up.

3. Jeff Flake:

   It's always' let's wait and get through the midterms and then we'll rein the President in' or' then we'll assert our constitutional prerogatives,' but we've got to be all together now.

4. Rachel Lindsay:

   He wasn’t defending Rachael, he repeated over and over during the 15-minute segment in which he essentially did just that. If I had gone to that party, I asked him, what wouldIrepresent? He told me that 50 million people had attended a party like this, i maintained that attending such a party was not a good look, to which he responded, ‘Is it not a good look in 2018, or is it not a good look in 2021?’ As if things couldn’t have been considered racist in 2018. He called for sympathy for ‘this poor girl, Rachael.’ He said all this with a passion I had never seen him assert. And neither, I think, had America. We had only seen Chris Harrison perform as a host; this was like catching him with a hot mic.

5. Richard Ledgett:

   The President missed a prime opportunity to confront Putin face-to-face and assert with some level of forcefulness that we know that you did this and here's what we are going to do if you don't stop.