Overview of verb avow

The verb avow has 2 senses

• affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear -- (to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent")


• avow, avouch -- (admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about)

Overview of adj avowed

The adj avowed has 1 sense

• avowed, professed -- (openly declared as such; "an avowed enemy"; "her professed love of everything about that country"; "McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist")