declare
IPA: dɪkɫˈɛr
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.
- (transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
- (card games) To show one's cards in order to score.
- (intransitive, cricket) For the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete even though all batsmen have not been dismissed.
- (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result
- (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
- (transitive) To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.
- (transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.
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Examples of "declare" in Sentences
- They declared these facts as a claim.
- I hope you announce it or declare it.
- In the trial, a mistrial was declared.
- I remember watching Begin declare Judea and Samaria part of Isreal.
- I officially declare this to be the greatest invention of the 20th century.
- Faith, they declare, is believing something that reason tells you can't be so.
- 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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