Definitions:

1. announce publicly or officially verb
   • The President declared war
2. authorize payments of verb
   • declare dividends
3. make a declaration of dutiable goods to a customs official verb
   • Do you have anything to declare?
4. proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against verb
   • I declared at once for moving back to the United States.
5. proclaimed or stated to be verb
   • Because they were no longer able to take care of their own affairs, they were declared incompetent.
6. state emphatically and authoritatively verb
   • They declared that they needed more money to carry out the task.
7. state firmly verb
   • We declared that we were innocent.

Synonyms:

• announce
• hold

NearBy Words:

• declared
• declarer