Usually means: State a fact or belief confidently.
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  1. assert: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. assert: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. assert: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. assert: Collins English Dictionary
  5. assert: Vocabulary.com
  6. Assert, assert: Wordnik
  7. assert: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. assert: Wiktionary
  9. assert: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. assert: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. assert: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. assert: Dictionary.com
  13. assert: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Assert (horse): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Assert: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. assert: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. assert: Rhymezone
  18. assert: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. assert: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. assert: Free Dictionary
  21. assert: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  23. assert: Merriam-Webster.com

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  2. assert: Legal dictionary

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  1. assert: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
verb:  To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
verb:  To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
verb:  (reflexive) To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive. See assert oneself.
verb:  (programming) To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).
verb:  (electronics) To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
noun:  (programming) Synonym of assertion

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