To state emphatically or authoritatively; affirm, To proclaim one's support, opposition, choice, or opinion, transitive verb_ To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce, to recede from an agreement, undertaking, contract, etc; to renounce, verb_ state emphatically and authoritatively, authorize payments of, make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official