Avow

Definition: Avow

Avow

Verb

1. To declare or affirm as true: "Before God I swear I am innocent.".

2. Admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "avow" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Synonyms: Avow

Affirmation

Depose, depone, aver, avow, avouch, asseverate, swear; make oath, take one's oath; make an affidavit, swear an affidavit, put in an affidavit; take one's Bible oath, kiss the book, vow, vitam impendere vero; swear till one is black in the face, swear till one is blue in the face, swear till all's blue; be sworn, call Heaven to witness; vouch, warrant, certify, assure, swear by bell book and candle.

Assent

Acknowledge, own, admit, allow, avow, confess; concede; (yield); come round to; abide by; permit.

Disclosure

Acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, own up to, confess, avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast; show one's hand, show one's cards; unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind, disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart; open one's mind, lay bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind; unbosom oneself, own to the soft impeachment; say the truth, speak the truth; turn King's (or Queen's) evidence; acknowledge the corn.

Crosswords: Avow

Expression using "avow": avow oneself. Additional references.

Albanian

them hapur, pohoj (admit, affirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, bear out, claim, confirm, have, maintain, predicate, protest, reassert). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صرح (castle, certify, cut open, declare, edifice, outrival, palace, predicate, proclaim, profess, represent, say, state, tower), ‏إعترف (acknowledge, admit, allow, come clean, concede, confess, grant, own, own up, profess, recognize, say), ‏أقر (accept, agree, confess, deposit, endorse, indorse), ‏أعلن (advertise, advertize, announce, bill, blare, celebrate, count, declare, denote, enunciate, gazette, portend, predicate, proclaim, profess, promulgate, pronounce, protest, publicize, publish, put out, report, represent, rule, show, sound, state, usher, vote). (various references)

Bulgarian 

заявявам (affirm, allege, assert, aver, declare, enounce, maintain, predicate, proclaim, profess, protest, set out, state), признавам (accept, accredit, acknowledge, admit, allow, concede, confess, find, homologate, own, profess, recognize, vote). (various references)

Chinese 

发�" (Avowing, swear, swearing, Swore, sworn, Vowed, Vowing). (various references)

Czech

uznat (accept, acknowledge, admit, concede, confess, place, recognize), hlásit se k. (various references)

Farsi 

پیمان (Accord, Act, Agreement, Compact, Compaction, Concord, Contract, Covenant, Faith, Hand, League, Oath, Pact, Promise, Testament, Treaty, Troth, Vow), نذرکردن , نذر (Bet, Vow), قول (Promise, Vow, Word), قسم خوردن (Oath), وقف کردن (Amortize, Bequeath, Dedicate, Devote, Endow), تعیین (Appointment, Nomination), تصمیم (Canon, Decision, Pluck, Resolution), عهد (Clause, Covenant, Era, Pact, Promise, Testament, Time, Vow, Word), عزم (Decision, Impetus, Purpose, Resolution), شرط (Article, Clause, Condition, Limitation, Provision, Proviso, Qualification, Reservation, Stake, Vow). (various references)

French

avouer, confesser. (various references)

German

bekennen (admit, bear witness to, confess, to avow, to confess). (various references)

Greek 

ομολογώ (acknowledge, admit, come clean, confess, own, profess). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ו�"ות (acknowledge, admit, confess, glorify, grant, praise), ל�"בטיח (assure, give one's word, make certain, make sure, promise, reassure, reserve, vouch). (various references)

Hungarian

elismer (acknowledge, admit, concede, recognize, to acknowledge, to admit, to approve of, to avow, to confess, to recognize). (various references)

Indonesian

mengakui (acknowledge, admit, concere, recognize). (various references)

Italian

ammettere (accept, acknowledge, admit, allow, allow in, concede, grant, own, permit, put in order, say, suppose, tidy). (various references)

Pig Latin

avoway

Portuguese

admitir (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, assume, concede, confess, grant, lead off, let in, receive, take in), reconhecer (accredit, acknowledge, admit, ascertain, avouch, cognize, concede, confess, establish, feel, hallow, honor, honour, identify, ken, know, notice, own, placatory, place, profess, recognize, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, take note, to recognize), confessar (acknowledge, admit, confess, own, own up, profess, recognize, unbosom). (various references)

Romanian

admite (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, allow of, appoint, approve, assume, Brook, concede, confess, contain, enter, grant, receive, suffer, take for granted, tolerate, vouchsafe), recunoaşte (acknowledge, adjudge, admit, allow, avouch, avow oneself, concede, confess, explore, feel, homologate, know, own, recognize, remember), mãrturisi (acknowledge, admit, affirm, assert, avouch, confess, confide, declare, unbosom, witness). (various references)

Russian 

признавать (acknowledge, admit, avowing, confess, espouse, give in, held [], homologate, plead, profess, recognize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

priznati (accord, acknowledge, admit, cede, cognize, confess, disbosom, grant, own up, recognize). (various references)

Spanish

admitir (accept, acknowledge, admit, admit of, allow, allow of, allow out, bear, concede, confess, initiate, receive, recognize, take, take in, tell), reconocer (accredit, acknowledge, admit, agree, allow, avouch, check up, clarify, face, inspect, know, notice, own, place, recognize, spot, spy out, survey, taste, tell), confesar (acknowledge, admit, allow, confess, own, own up, profess, recognize, shrive, unburden). (various references)

Swedish

erkänna (acknowledge, admit, admit to, allow, avouch, confess, own, receive, recognize). (various references)

Thai

ยืนยัน (assert, ratify, remain abreast of, seal). (various references)

Turkish

açıkça söylemek (articulate, make no secret of, profess, speak out), itiraf etmek (acknowledge, admit, allow, avouch, avow oneself, beg, come clean, confess, own, own up, profess, recognize, stand in a white sheet, unbosom, unburden), beyan etmek (affirm, asseverate, attest, be declaratory of, declare, manifest, predicate, proclaim, return). (various references)

Ukrainian

відверто заявляти, визнавати (accept, account, acknowledge, admit, allow, avouch, confess, declare, own, recognize), підтверджувати (acknowledge, affirm, approve, attest, avouch, bear out, carry, certify, confirm, corroborate, endorse, homologate, indorse, justify, reassert, reconfirm, say yes, uphold, verify, vouch). (various references)

Welsh

arddel (claim, own), addef (acknowledge, admit, confess, dwelling, home, own), cydnabod (acknowledge, acquaintance). (various references)

avouer. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "avow": avowable, avowably, avowal, avowals, avowed, avowedly, avower, avowers, avowing, avows. (additional references)

Words ending with "avow": disavow, reavow. (additional references)

Words containing "avow": disavowable, disavowal, disavowals, disavowed, disavowing, disavows, reavowed, reavowing, reavows, unavowed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Avow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aao, Aaow, abow, adow, Adowa, advo, agow, anow, Aoew, aowe, aqo, Arvo, Asogwa, atow, Avco, avcom, avea, aveb, avem, aveo, avib, avio, avioc, avo, avoc, avod, avoe, avoi, avol, avor, avos, avowe, avown, avox, avro, avto, avus, ekow, evow, evw, ivo, ivow, vao. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: avo, ova, vaw, vow.

-2 letters: aw, ow, wo.

+1 letter: avows.

+2 letters: avowal, avowed, avower, reavow.

+3 letters: avowals, avowers, avowing, disavow, overawe, oversaw, reavows, waveoff.

+4 letters: advowson, avowable, avowably, avowedly, disavows, ovenware, overawed, overawes, overdraw, overwarm, overwary, overweak, overwear, reavowed, unavowed, walkover, waveform, waveoffs.

+5 letters: advowsons, disavowal, disavowed, handwoven, microwave, ovenwares, overawing, overdrawn, overdraws, overwarms, overwater, overwears, overweary, reavowing, shortwave, vaporware, walkovers, waveforms.