declare

Verb

• proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against
  • His wife declared at once for moving to the West Coast
    

• make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official
  • Do you have anything to declare?
    

• designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand

• authorize payments of
  • declare dividends
    

• declare to be
  • She was declared incompetent
    
  • judge held that the defendant was innocent
    

• state firmly
  • He declared that he was innocent
    

• announce publicly or officially
  • The President declared war
    

• state emphatically and authoritatively
  • He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  adjudge , hold , announce