avow

1 to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, aver, swan, swear]

2 admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about [syn: avouch] [ant: disavow]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʊ

Verb

1. To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
2. To state in a positive manner.

Related terms

• avowable
• avowably
• avowal
• avowance
• avowed
• avowedly
• avower
• vow

Translations

• Chinese: 公开说 (gōngkāi shuō)
• Japanese: 公言する (こうげんする, kōgen suru)
• Romanian: mărturisi
• Spanish: confesar, admitir
• Turkish: itiraf etmek, açıkça söylemek

accept, acknowledge, admit, admit everything, affirm, agree provisionally, allege, allow, announce, annunciate, argue, assent grudgingly, assert, assever, asseverate, attest, aver, avouch, bear witness, certify, claim, come clean, concede, confess, contend, cop a plea, declare, defend, depone, depose, disclose, enunciate, express, express general agreement, express the belief, give evidence, go along with, grant, have, hold, insist, issue a manifesto, lay down, let on, maintain, manifesto, not oppose, open up, out with it, own, own up, plead guilty, predicate, pretend, pretext, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protest, protest too much, purport, put, put it, recognize, say, set down, speak, speak out, speak up, spill, spill it, spit it out, stand for, stand on, state, submit, swear, tell all, tell the truth, testify, vindicate, vouch, vow, warrant, witness, yield