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(v)
(transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
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(ambitransitive) To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner.
(n)
Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
(with on or upon, formerly also with in) to trust; to have confidence in; to depend.
To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
(intransitive, law) To testify, especially in the form of a deposition.
(intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
(transitive) To remove (a leader) from (high) office without killing (them).
(intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.
(transitive) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
(chiefly US, colloquial) To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.
(intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
(ambitransitive, ditransitive) To commit to (some action or outcome), or to assure (a person) of such commitment; to make an oath or vow.
(ambitransitive) To make a vow; to promise.
To make a solemn promise (to do something).
(archaic) To pledge.
(transitive) To make sure and secure; ensure.
Anything that assures a certain outcome.
To make a declaration, or give evidence, under oath.
To judge by means of a jury.
(law) A member of a jury.
True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
(ambitransitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
(transitive, ditransitive) To convey by speech; to say.
(transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
(transitive) To idolize.
(intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
The act of one who curses.
To make or form a cross.
To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.
(transitive, ditransitive) To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.
(transitive) To attest that a product, service, organization, or person has met an official standard.
(transitive) To affirm or warrant the correctness or truth of (something); also, to affirm or warrant (the truth of an assertion or statement).
(transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
(transitive) To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.
A pact or binding agreement between two or more parties.
(transitive) To assert earnestly, seriously, and confidently
(adj)
Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
(sometimes vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
(transitive, formal) To take an oath on someone or something.
(idiomatic) To trust wholeheartedly.
(transitive) To administer an oath to, as an oath of office or of citizenship.
To swear an oath.
Alternative form of swear upon. [(transitive, formal) To take an oath on someone or something.]
(transitive) To swear by; swear about or regarding; swear at or to; promise
(informal) To vigorously affirm the truth of a statement, knowing that the failure to do so may result in a punishment from God.
(transitive) To confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something.
To promise.
To get married.
To make a promise.
(archaic) Of a man: to promise to take (a woman) as a future spouse; to plight one's troth to.
(transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
(intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
(Christianity) To become an officially inducted member of a religious order, such as an order of priests, nuns, or monks.
(transitive, US) To make solemn, or official, through ceremony or legal act.
(transitive, idiomatic, dated) To pawn; to give as a guarantee.
Faith, trust.
(chiefly historical) To accept a sign or badge depicting the Christian cross as part of an oath or vow, especially to take part in a crusade.
(intransitive) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.
(transitive) To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To formalize an agreement.
A dire or unfortunate situation.
(intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
(transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
(transitive) Specifically, to assume financial responsibility for something, and guarantee it against failure.
(transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
(adv)
In a full manner; without lack or defect; completely, entirely.
A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
(obsolete) To seal or ratify.
Obsolete form of solemnize. [(transitive, US) To make solemn, or official, through ceremony or legal act.]
(intransitive) To attest to the truthfulness of the accompanying statement.
(biology) An obligate organism.
(idiomatic) To log on; to start using a computer, radio, or other multicast device; to start talking.
(transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
(uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful).
Obsolete spelling of confess. [(intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.]
(transitive) To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly.
(law, countable) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.
(ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
Misspelling of ensure. [(intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).]
A surname.
(transitive) To engage in a formal or informal process.
(transitive) To indicate beforehand.
Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.
Stubborn insistence.
(transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
To vow again or anew.
(intransitive, colloquial) To confess to something; to admit something.
A collection of papers collated and archived together.
(transitive) To sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate.
(transitive) To solemnly pronounce