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Synonyms:

advertise, announce, annunciate, asseverate, aver, blare, blaze, blazon, broadcast, disclose, enunciate, flash, give out, herald, placard, post, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, release, sound, state, trumpet.

Related Words:

acknowledge, admit, advocate, affirm, argue, assert, claim, confirm, indicate, inform, insist, maintain, reaffirm, repeat, reveal, stress, tell. 

Antonym:

deny. 

Synonym Study 1 (Dictionary.com):

Declare, affirm, assert, and protest imply making something known emphatically, openly, or formally. 

To declare is to make known, sometimes in the face of actual or potential contradiction: 
to declare someone the winner of a contest. 

To affirm is to make a statement based on one's reputation for knowledge or veracity, or so related to a generally recognized truth that denial is not likely: 
to affirm the necessity of high standards. 

To assert is to state boldly, usually without other proof than personal authority or conviction: 
to assert that the climate is changing. 

To protest is to affirm publicly, as if in the face of doubt: 
to protest that a newspaper account is misleading.

Synonym Study 2 (Merriam-Webster):

Declare, announce, proclaim, and promulgate mean to make known publicly. 

Declare implies explicitness and usually formality in making known: 
the referee declared the contest a draw. 

Announce implies the declaration of something for the first time:
announced their engagement at a party. 

Proclaim implies declaring clearly, forcefully, and authoritatively: 
the president proclaimed a national day of mourning. 

Promulgate implies the proclaiming of a dogma, doctrine, or law:
promulgated an edict of religious toleration.

Synonym Study 3 (Merriam-Webster):

Assert, declare, affirm, protest, and avow mean to state positively usually in anticipation of denial or objection. 

Assert implies stating confidently without need for proof or regard for evidence:
asserted that modern music is just noise. 

Declare stresses open or public statement:
declared her support for the candidate. 

Affirm implies conviction based on evidence, experience, or faith:
affirmed the existence of an afterlife. 

Protest emphasizes affirming in the face of denial or doubt:
protested that he really had been misquoted. 

Avow stresses frank declaration and acknowledgment of personal responsibility for what is declared:
avowed that all investors would be repaid in full.

Origin:

1275–1325; Middle English declaren<Latin dēclārāre to explain, equivalent to dē-de- + clārāre to make clear (clār(us) clear + -āre infinitive suffix). British dictionary: C14: from Latin dēclārāre to make clear, from clārus bright, clear. —Dictionary.com. // 
 
First Known Use of declare: 14th century. History and Etymology for declare: Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French declarer, from Latin declarare, from de- + clarare to make visible, from clarus clear — more at clear. —Merriam-Webster.

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Added: 21 August 2020 {8:49 PM}
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