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avouch
[ uh-vouch ]
verb (used with object)
- to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness.
- to assume responsibility for; vouch for; guarantee.
- to admit; confess.
avouch
/ əˈvaʊtʃ /
verb
- to vouch for; guarantee
- to acknowledge
- to assert
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Derived Forms
- aˈvouchment, noun
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Other Words From
- a·voucher noun
- a·vouchment noun
- una·vouched adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of avouch1
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Example Sentences
How many young women in Boston can avouch for the truth of this statement?
Upon which principle I also avouch all Mr. T.'s charges, as I hear them and consent to their publication.
"'And which shall find its way thither, if thou dost not avouch a fable," replied the king.
Taken together, they avouch a personality that needs only opportunity to insure itself lasting fame.
I say that it was the act of a rebel, and will avouch my words against you, though the whole colony were at your back.
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