intransitive verb. To make known formally or officially; proclaim: synonym: announce.

intransitive verb. To state emphatically or authoritatively; affirm.

intransitive verb. To reveal or make manifest; show.

intransitive verb. To make a full statement of (dutiable goods, for example).

intransitive verb. To designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand in bridge.

intransitive verb. To make a declaration.

intransitive verb. To announce one's intention to run for public office.

intransitive verb. To proclaim one's support, opposition, choice, or opinion.

idiom. (declare war) To state formally the intention to carry on armed hostilities against.

idiom. (declare war) To state one's intent to suppress or eradicate.

In bridge, to make or name the trump suit, or to announce the intention to play without a trump.

To make clear; clear up; free from obscurity; make plain.

To make known by words; assert explicitly; manifest or communicate plainly in any way; publish; proclaim; tell.

To proclaim; announce.

To assert; affirm: as, he declares the story to be false.

In law, to solemnly assert a fact before witnesses: as, he declared a paper signed by him to be his last will and testament.

To make a full statement of, as of goods on which duty is to be paid at the custom-house.

To make known one's thoughts or opinions; proclaim or avow some opinion, purpose, or resolution in favor or in opposition; make known explicitly some determination; make a declaration; come out: with for or against: as, the prince declared for the allies; victory had not declared for either party; the allied powers declared against France.

Specifically To express a formal decision; make a decision known by official proclamation or notice.

In law, to make a declaration or complaint; set forth formally in pleading the cause for relief against the defendant: as, the plaintiff declared on a promissory note.

In the game of bezique, to lay on the table, face up, any counting-cards or combinations of cards; show cards for the purpose of scoring.

To decide against continuing a habit or practice; break away from a custom: as, to declare off from smoking.

intransitive verb. To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; -- often with for or against.

intransitive verb. To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form.

transitive verb. To make clear; to free from obscurity.

transitive verb. To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce.

transitive verb. To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow.

transitive verb. To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc.

transitive verb. to recede from an agreement, undertaking, contract, etc.; to renounce.

transitive verb. to avow one's opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses.

verb. To make clear, explain, interpret.

verb. To make a declaration.

verb. To announce one’s support, choice, opinion, etc.

verb. For the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete even though all batsmen have not been dismissed.

verb. To announce something formally or officially.

verb. To affirm or state something emphatically.

verb. To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.

verb. To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.

verb. To explicitly include (a variable) as part of a list of variables, often providing some information about the data it is expected to contain.

verb. state emphatically and authoritatively

verb. designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand

verb. announce publicly or officially

verb. authorize payments of

verb. declare to be

verb. state firmly

verb. make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official

verb. proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against

"Kerry's challenge, Sperling and his three co-authors declare, is to convince voters in swing states such as Arizona, Colorado and the industrial Midwest that they should get hip by becoming more "metro" and less "retro.""

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