ALLEGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allege mean? 

• ALLEGE (verb)
  The verb ALLEGE has 1 sense:

1. report or maintain

  Familiarity information: ALLEGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLEGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they allege    ... he / she / it alleges   
Past simple: alleged   
Past participle: alleged   
-ing form: alleging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Report or maintain

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

allege; aver; say

Context example:

The registrar says that I owe the school money

Hypernyms (to "allege" is one way to...):

assert; asseverate; maintain (state categorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "allege"):

plead (make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They allege that there was a traffic accident

Derivation:

allegement (statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove)

 Context examples 

The reason alleged was their determined resolution of not leaving their mother at that time of the year.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I sometimes thought of standing my trial, for, although I could not deny the facts alleged in the several articles, yet I hoped they would admit of some extenuation.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But you know my opinion on the reviewers and the alleged critics.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Clerval, whose eyes and feelings were always quick in discerning the sensations of others, declined the subject, alleging, in excuse, his total ignorance; and the conversation took a more general turn.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But neither the business alleged, nor the magnificent compliment, could win Catherine from thinking that some very different object must occasion so serious a delay of proper repose.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I did not like to walk at this hour alone with Mr. Rochester in the shadowy orchard; but I could not find a reason to allege for leaving him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Alleging temperatures of up to 1,000 degrees Celsius, Molony said metallurgists had opined when you get that level of temperature against steel it makes it brittle, and reduces its strength by up to 75 per cent.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

It arose out of a scuffle between two churchwardens, one of whom was alleged to have pushed the other against a pump; the handle of which pump projecting into a school-house, which school-house was under a gable of the church-roof, made the push an ecclesiastical offence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It appears that some little trouble was caused by a woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I often refused to accompany him, alleging another engagement, that I might remain alone.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)