ASSEVERATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they asseverate ... he / she / it asseverates

Past simple: asseverated

Past participle: asseverated

-ing form: asseverating

Meaning:

State categorically

Synonyms:

assert; asseverate; maintain

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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)