0 present participle of assert
1 to behave in a way that expresses your confidence, importance, or power and earns you respect from others:
Tough new policies are needed if the authorities are to assert control over a crime-ridden city.
The prime minister asserted that he had no intention of resigning.
He made a special appearance on television asserting that the allegations against him were false.
The attempt to discredit sectarian practices asserted the professionalism of regular medicine by implicitly disavowing its curious past as well as asserting its clinical present.
Claims such as 'the table is square', or 'the earth is round', typically have the function of asserting that certain facts obtain in the world.
It reacted by assuring the authorities that it would abide by all orders and by asserting its readiness to co-operate.
