Assert

[ə'sɜːt] or [ə'sɝt]

解释:

(verb.) state categorically.

(verb.) insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized; 'Women should assert themselves more!'.

丹整理--From WordNet

解释:

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

(v. t.) To maintain; to defend.

(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.

录入:温德尔

同义词及近义词：

v. a. [1]. Affirm, declare, pronounce, express, aver, allege, asseverate, protest, avow, predicate, lay down.[2]. Vindicate, defend, claim, maintain, uphold.

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同义词及反义词：

SYN:Asseverate, declare, pronounce, depose, maintain, statement, avow, avouch,affirm, allege, protest, claim

ANT:Deny, contradict, contravene, waive, abandon

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解释:

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.

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