Usually means: Declare openly, assert, swear truthfully.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. avow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. avow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. avow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. avow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. avow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Avow, avow: Wordnik
  7. avow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. avow: Wiktionary
  9. avow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. avow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. avow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Avow, avow: Dictionary.com
  13. avow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Avow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. avow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. avow: Rhymezone
  17. Avow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. avow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. avow: Free Dictionary
  20. avow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. avow: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. avow: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Avow: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  2. avow: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. avow: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AVOW: Acronym Finder

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
verb:  (transitive) To bind or devote by a vow.
verb:  (law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
noun:  (obsolete) avowal

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