Assert and Intend

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

verb

• Have in mind as a purpose.
  • usage: "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night"
  • synonyms: mean, think
• Design or destine.
  • usage: "She was intended to become the director"
  • synonyms: destine, designate, specify
• Mean or intend to express or convey.
  • usage: "You never understand what I mean"; "what do his words intend"
  • synonyms: mean
• Denote or connote.
  • usage: "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"
  • synonyms: mean, signify, stand for

• (v.t.) To intensify; to strengthen.
• (v.t.) To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold.
• (v.t.) To strain; to make tense.
• (v.t.) To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey.
• (v.t.) To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard.
• (v.t.) To apply with energy.
• (v.t.) To stretch' to extend; to distend.
• (v.t.) To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate.
• (v.t.) To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; -- often followed by an infinitely with to or a dependent clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that she shall remain.