declare   (Sound)

The verb declare has 8 senses

• declare -- (state emphatically and authoritatively; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with")


• announce, declare -- (announce publicly or officially; "The President declared war")


• declare -- (state firmly; "He declared that he was innocent")


• declare, adjudge, hold -- (declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent")


• declare -- (authorize payments of; "declare dividends")


• declare -- (designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand)


• declare -- (make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official; "Do you have anything to declare?")


• declare -- (proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against; "His wife declared at once for moving to the West Coast")