📚 Aver, verb. 🔉 /əˈvəː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (reporting verb • formal): State or assert to be the case. ❗️ Examples: 1. He averred that he was innocent of the allegations. 2. ‘I don't have to do anything — it's his problem,’ he averred. 3. ‘I guess these sorts of things happen in every field but since this is a glamour field, they are highlighted more,’ she avers. 4. In his prologue he avers that the international community faces a period that is ‘uncertain and politically unstable’. 5. ‘When I went to the US and the UK for training, I visited hospitals, schools, police stations and other organisations to study their management methods,’ he avers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic