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declare

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See also: declaré, déclaré, and déclare

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, from Latin dēclārō (“to make clear”), from dē- + clārus (“clear”).

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declare (third-person singular simple present declares, present participle declaring, simple past and past participle declared)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
    Synonyms: disclose, make known; see also Thesaurus:announce
    He declared him innocent.
    declare bankruptcy
    declare victory
    declare war
    • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
      One South Korean opposition party called on Moon to declare the current air pollution problem a national disaster.
    declare an innings closed
  3. (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
    Synonyms: disclose, make known, divulge
    • 1984 April 2, Richard Woodbury, Anastasia Toufexis, “Law: The Trouble with Harry”, in Time:
      The prosecution has introduced evidence, including canceled checks, to show that the judge failed to declare part of his income.
  4. (card games) To show one's cards in order to score.
  5. (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result
    Houghton and Sunderland South was the first constituency to declare in the 2015 general election.
  6. (transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.
    The counter "i" was declared as an integer.
  7. (grand strategy games, slang) to declare war [with on]
    France declared on me, I'm finished!
  8. (Christianity, particularly Evangelicalism) To state that a thing shall happen or affirm a condition in the hopes of seeing it happen spiritually, in contrast to prayer which takes the form of a request.
    He prayed to God "please heal my sister", while she declared "I am healed in Jesus' name".

Conjugation

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Conjugation of declare
infinitive (to) declare
present tense past tense
1st-person singular declare declared
2nd-person singular declare, declarest† declared, declaredst†
3rd-person singular declares, declareth† declared
plural declare
subjunctive declare declared
imperative declare —
participles declaring declared

† Archaic or obsolete.

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Translations

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Anagrams

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Galician

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Verb

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declare

  1. inflection of declarar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -aɾi, (Portugal) -aɾɨ
  • Hyphenation: de‧cla‧re

Verb

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declare

  1. inflection of declarar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

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declare

  1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of declara

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /deˈklaɾe/ [d̪eˈkla.ɾe]
  • Rhymes: -aɾe
  • Syllabification: de‧cla‧re

Verb

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declare

  1. inflection of declarar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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