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All declare antonyms

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verb declare

  • misdeclare — to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms: to declare one's position in a controversy.
  • conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
  • hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
  • withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.
  • deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
  • veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
  • contradict — If you contradict someone, you say that what they have just said is wrong, or suggest that it is wrong by saying something different.
  • repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
  • suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
  • obscure — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
  • refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
  • mumble — to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
  • retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
  • disavow — to disclaim knowledge of, connection with, or responsibility for; disown; repudiate: He disavowed the remark that had been attributed to him.
  • disown — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
  • reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
  • renounce — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
  • retract — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
  • disclaim — to deny or repudiate interest in or connection with; disavow; disown: disclaiming all participation.
  • oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
  • forget — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
  • take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
  • confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
  • abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
  • secrete — a steel skullcap of the 17th century, worn under a soft hat.
  • keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
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