ASSEVERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does asseverate mean? 

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

1. state categorically

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSEVERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they asseverate    ... he / she / it asseverates   
Past simple: asseverated   
Past participle: asseverated   
-ing form: asseverating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

State categorically

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

assert; asseverate; maintain

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

insist; take a firm stand (be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge)

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

allege; aver; say (report or maintain)

predicate; proclaim (affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of)

Sentence frames:

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

Sentence example:

They asseverate that there was a traffic accident

Derivation:

asseveration (a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary))

asseverator (someone who claims to speak the truth)