assert

Meaning

1. To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
2. To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
3. To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
4. To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive. See assert oneself.
5. To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).
6. To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.

affirm

maintain

declare

allege

say emphatically

require

attack verbally

pretend to

take the liberty of

state definitively

be obstinate in saying

make an allegation

give effect to

speak emphatically

charge strictly

declare positively

say positively

make name

impose upon

insist on

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈsɜːt/

From Latin assertus, perfect passive participle of asserō (“declare someone free or a slave by laying hands upon him; hence free from, protect, defend; lay claim to, assert, declare”), from ad (“to”) + serō (“join, range in a row”).

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