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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

declare

SYLLABICATION:	de·clare
PRONUNCIATION:	d-klâr
VERB:	Inflected forms: de·clared, de·clar·ing, de·clares
TRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To make known formally or officially. See synonyms at announce. 2. To state emphatically or authoritatively; affirm. 3. To reveal or make manifest; show. 4. To make a full statement of (dutiable goods, for example). 5. Games To designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand in bridge.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To make a declaration. 2. To proclaim one's support, choice, opinion, or resolution.
IDIOM:	declare war 1. To state formally the intention to carry on armed hostilities against. 2. To state one's intent to suppress or eradicate: declared war on drug dealing in the neighborhood.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, from Latin dclrre : d-, intensive pref.; see de– + clrre, to make clear (from clrus, clear; see kel-² in Appendix I).
OTHER FORMS:	de·clara·ble —ADJECTIVE de·clarer —NOUN


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