declaim | (verb) recite in elocution | Synonyms: recite |
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(verb) speak against in an impassioned manner | Synonyms: inveigh |
declamation | (noun) vehement oratory | - |
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(noun) recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric | - |
declamatory | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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declarable | (adjective) that must be declared | - |
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declaration | (noun) a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written) | - |
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(noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: resolution, resolve |
(noun) (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction | - |
(noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, annunciation, proclamation |
(noun) (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make | Synonyms: contract |
(noun) a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties | - |
declarative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declaratory |
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(adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: indicative |
(noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood |
declaratory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declarative |
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declare | (verb) state emphatically and authoritatively | - |
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(verb) state firmly | - |
(verb) make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official | - |
(verb) declare to be | Synonyms: adjudge, hold |
(verb) announce publicly or officially | Synonyms: announce |
(verb) proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against | - |
(verb) designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand | - |
(verb) authorize payments of | - |
declared | (adjective) made known or openly avowed | - |
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(adjective) declared as fact; explicitly stated | Synonyms: stated |
declarer | (noun) the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps | Synonyms: contractor |
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(noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, avower |
declassification | (noun) reduction or removal by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon | - |
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declassified | (adjective) having had security classification removed | - |
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declassify | (verb) lift the restriction on and make available again | - |
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declaw | (verb) remove the claws from | - |
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declension | (noun) a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms | - |
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(noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
(noun) process of changing to an inferior state | Synonyms: decline in quality, deterioration, worsening |
(noun) the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages | - |
declination | (noun) a polite refusal of an invitation | Synonyms: regrets |
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(noun) (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere | Synonyms: celestial latitude, dec |
(noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
(noun) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline | Synonyms: decline |
decline | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
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(noun) a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current | Synonyms: decay |
(noun) change toward something smaller or lower | Synonyms: diminution |
(noun) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline | Synonyms: declination |
(verb) grow smaller | Synonyms: go down, wane |
(verb) grow worse | Synonyms: worsen |
(verb) show unwillingness towards | Synonyms: refuse |
(verb) inflect for number, gender, case, etc. | - |
(verb) go down | - |
(verb) fall in value | Synonyms: correct, slump |
(verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: pass up, refuse, reject, turn down |
declinometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring magnetic declination | Synonyms: transit declinometer |
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declivitous | (adjective) sloping down rather steeply | Synonyms: downhill, downward-sloping |
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declivity | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, descent, downslope, fall |
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declutch | (verb) disengage the clutch of a car | - |
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