Definition of asserts in English

Part of speech

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asserts, verb, present, 3rd person singular of assert (infinitive).

WordNet

Verb asserts, asserting, asserted
assert - state categorically
		asseverate, maintain
		take a firm stand, insist assert to be true; "The letter asserts a free society"
		allege, aver, say report or maintain; "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money"
		predicate, proclaim affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
assert - insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized; "Women should assert themselves more!"
		put forward
		acquit, comport, behave, deport, conduct, bear, carry pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges"
assert - to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"
		affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
		declare state firmly; "He declared that he was innocent"
		hold keep from exhaling or expelling; "hold your breath"
		claim, take take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her"
		attest authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity; "I attest this signature"
		declare state firmly; "He declared that he was innocent"
		protest utter words of protest
		assure, tell assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence; "I assured him that traveling to Cambodia was safe"
assert - assert to be true; "The letter asserts a free society"
		insist
		posit, postulate take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature"

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Wiktionary

assert (Noun)
An assert statement; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.
assert (Verb)
To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
assert (Verb)
To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
assert (Verb)
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.
assert (Verb)
To make true; to make equal to 1.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

assert (v. t.)
To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.
assert (v. t.)
To maintain; to defend.
assert (v. t.)
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.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

assert
To say definitely and categorically.
assert
To maintain or defend opinions, claims, rights, etc.
assert
To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

assert
as-sėrt′, v.t. to vindicate or defend by arguments or measures (now used only of the cause as object or reflexive): to declare strongly: to lay claim to or insist upon anything: to affirm: (rare) to bear evidence of.—adj. Assert′able.—ns. Assert′er, Assert′or, a champion, one who makes a positive statement; Asser′tion, affirmation: the act of claiming one's rights: averment.—adj. Assert′ive, asserting or confirming confidently: positive: dogmatic.—adv. Assert′ively.—n. Assert′iveness.—adj. Assert′ory, affirmative.—To assert one's self, to defend one's rights or opinions, sometimes with unnecessary zeal, to thrust one's self forward. [L. asserĕre (superl. assertum), aliquem manu in libertatem, to lay hands on a slave in token of manumission, hence to protect, affirm, declare—ad, to, and serĕre, to join. Cf. Series.]