Assert

What do we mean by assert?

To state or express positively; affirm. transitive verb

To defend or maintain (one's rights, for example). transitive verb

To put into action boldly; employ or demonstrate. transitive verb

(assert oneself) To act boldly or forcefully, especially in defending one's rights or stating an opinion. idiom

To bring (into freedom); set (free).

To vindicate, maintain, or defend by words or measures; support the cause or claims of; vindicate a claim or title to: now used only of immaterial objects or reflexively: as, to assert our rights and liberties; he asserted himself boldly.

To state as true; affirm; asseverate; aver; declare.

Syn. 2. Assert, Defend, Maintain, Vindicate, Assert supports a cause or claim aggressively: its meaning is well brought out in the expression, assert yourself; that is, make your influence felt. To defend is primarily to drive back assaults. To maintain is to hold up to the full amount, defending from diminution: as, to maintain the ancient customs, liberties, rights. To vindicate is to rescue, as from diminution, dishonor, or censure: as, to “vindicate the ways of God to man,”

Assert, Affirm, Declare, Aver, Asseverate (see declare), allege, protest, avow, lay down. (See protest.) Assert seems to expect doubt or contradiction of what one says. Affirm strengthens a statement by resting it upon one's reputation for knowledge or veracity: as, “she constantly affirmed that it was even so,” Acts xii. 15. Declare makes public, clear, or emphatic, especially against contradiction. Aver is positive and peremptory. Asseverate is positive and solemn.

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. transitive verb

To maintain; to defend. transitive verb

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to. transitive verb

To claim or vindicate one's rights or position; to demand recognition. transitive verb

An assert statement; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true. noun

To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively. verb

To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of. verb

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties. verb

To make true; to make equal to 1. verb

Assert to be true verb

State categorically verb

An assertion; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.

To speak clearly your mind Urban Dictionary

If you are assertive,you speak and behave in a confident way and direct way, so that people pay attention to you Urban Dictionary

A trait that people have when they can stand up for themselves without being rude. Urban Dictionary

Someone who makes the initiative to take action Urban Dictionary

To do what you want to do, in an aggressive yet not overbearing way. To go for what you want. Urban Dictionary

Professional character displaying high self esteem. Often demonstrates their high self worth by owning at online games. Will change their name often as an attempt to avoid detection by fellow online gamers so as to facilitate a few more moments of owning before being kicked by the community. Their scientific name is Owneddist Extremist. Urban Dictionary

It means when you are going to fight someone or when ur about to fight someone and have beef with them if you are going to fight someone u will ‘assert’ them Urban Dictionary

A euphemism. Commonly used by arrogant, aggressive and disrespectful people to put a positive spin on their behaviour. Also used by normal folk to describe primitive beings who feel it necessary to crush or dominate everyone and everything around them. Urban Dictionary

1. The most favorite term of busybody psychos to hide behind with their thought stomping and overbearing behaviour. 2. A Term used by emotional abusers and other mouthbreathers to justify their indifference to the harm they are doing by being deliberately blind to the obvious consequences of their own personal actions. 3. Originally set to promote proud empowered behaviour that does not harm others (not a single fuck was given that day, as long as I did not do immediate harm to others). However, as with any other postivie and upbringing things it got hijacked and perverted by power tripping authoritarians to promote downbringing, dream killing and ignorance towards free will and self determination. Urban Dictionary

Prone to being a pain in the ass Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to assert:
assert, asset, assent, assort, assart, astert, asser, assett.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word assert:
primacy, dominance, sovereignty, supremacy, superiority, asserts, privilege, innocence, authority, claim, asserted, independence, claims, jurisdiction, autonomy, facts, copyright, sovereign, identity, rights, arctic, argue, doctrine, merely, existence, self, control, moral, object, themselves, patent, territorial, false, jesus, ownership, statements, itself, belief, truth.

Words that rhyme with assert:
desert, dessert, hurt, revert, alert, overt, avert, exert, convert, introvert, curt, inert, skirt, shirt, concert, pervert, subvert, divert, dirt, flirt, pert, insert, turret, squirt, extrovert, evert, invert, spurt, vert, girt, disconcert, blurt, quirt, peart, chert, bert, kurt, sweatshirt, wert, reassert, burt, dilbert, erte, gert, outskirt, hirt, undershirt, miniskirt, pay dirt, nightshirt, hert, hair shirt, unhurt, purt, kirt, birt, wirt, stuffed shirt, polo shirt, tee shirt, hobble skirt, dress shirt, sea squirt, ballet skirt, lampert, on the alert, frozen dessert, burtt, boisvert, full skirt, grass skirt, sport shirt, evening shirt, herdt, gelatin dessert, hit the dirt, gathered skirt, gumpert, berte, mcgirt, thibert, hurtt, humpert, kuhrt, mcguirt, mcwhirt, schwerdt, vanwert.

Adjectives that are often used to describe assert:
public, areequal, test, actual, previous, chop.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective assert:
statements, ion, values, local, command.

Consonant match to assert:
asset, eyesight, oocyte, escot, ossete, assot, escout, osset, escaut, house sit, ice out, acet-, a sight, ace out, a site, e site, ice-out, a seat, a set, ace it, e set, eisert, es et, es it, esse et, esse sit, eye sought, ha site, haas at, haas et, haase at, haase et, hass et, haus et, he sat, he set, hee set, her set, hess et, hesse et, hiss it, ho set, house et, house it, house set, howe set, huss et, ice it, o set, os at, os et, os it, oss at, oss et, owe suit, us ate, us cite, us eat, us eight, us et, us hate, us hit, us hot, us hurt, us it, us ought, us set, us sit, who set, who sit.

Words that sound like assert:
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