MEANING
To state or maintain something emphatically or solemnly.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- asseverate a claim
- solemnly asseverate
On the page
He asseverated his innocence without addressing the missing entry.
The narrator asseverated that the account was true, then contradicted its opening.
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Word forms
- Base
- asseverate
- Past tense
- asseverated
- Past participle
- asseverated
- Present participle
- asseverating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- asseverate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are asseverating
- Present perfect
- have/has asseverated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been asseverating
- Past
- asseverated
- Past continuous
- was/were asseverating
- Past perfect
- had asseverated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been asseverating
- Future
- will asseverate
- Future continuous
- will be asseverating
- Future perfect
- will have asseverated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been asseverating
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: asseverate; asseverates; asseverated; asseverated; asseverating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: asseverates.
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