What is another word for Alleging?
198 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɐlˈɛd͡ʒɪŋ], [ ɐlˈɛdʒɪŋ], [ ɐ_l_ˈɛ_dʒ_ɪ_ŋ]
Alleging is a word that is often used in legal, journalism and academic contexts, to refer to the act of making a claim or assertion about something or someone that has yet to be proven. Its synonyms include the words asserting, claiming, maintaining, contending, stating, and professing. Each of these words denotes a level of confidence in the stated fact, with alleging being the most tentative and claiming and asserting being the most firm. Using synonyms for alleging can help to impart a sense of clarity and authority to a statement, while giving the reader or listener a more complete understanding of the author's point of view.
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Synonyms for Alleging:
v.
• accusing (verb) • suing (verb)Other synonyms:
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- saying.
- forward-moving,
- state,
- declaratory,
- hazard,
- corroborate,
- register,
- avow,
- dissemble,
- study,
- contention,
- accusatory,
- verificatory,
- evidence,
- hypothesize,
- feigning,
- pretence,
- injunction,
- licence,
- enjoinment,
- announce,
- simulation,
- hypothesise,
- forward,
- observe,
- verify,
- venture,
- make,
- support,
- collateral,
- affect,
- attest,
- disputation,
- corroboratory,
- approbative,
- incriminatory,
- pretense,
- indicate,
- oblation,
- asseverate,
- criminatory,
- swan,
- confirmative,
- substantiative,
- enunciate,
- wield,
- contestation,
- criminative,
- defend,
- positive,
- profess,
- opine,
- accusive,
- hold,
- endorse,
- adjudge,
- substantiate,
- exert,
- guess,
- profession,
- reckon,
- substantiating,
- show,
- tell,
- offer,
- presuppose,
- reason,
- tilt,
- tongue-lashing,
- put forward,
- contend,
- fence,
- act,
- validatory,
- keep up,
- reassert,
- make believe,
- articulate,
- preserve,
- corroborative,
- take,
- hypothecate,
- indorse,
- uphold,
- chiding,
- think,
- interpret,
- swear,
- license,
- understand,
- learn,
- complaintive,
- demonstrate,
- blessing,
- sustain,
- order,
- scan,
- enounce,
- debate,
- locution,
- translate,
- declarative,
- accusative,
- affirmative,
- record,
- theorize,
- feign,
- aver,
- confirmatory,
- expression,
- approval,
- insist,
- imagine,
- cease and desist order,
- controversy,
- make-believe,
- ordination,
- verifying,
- sound out,
- approbatory,
- speculate,
- keep,
- argument,
- sham,
- theorise,
- objurgation,
- conserve,
- condemnatory,
- manifest,
- conjecture,
- plausive,
- pronounce.
- ordering,
- pretending,
- Allowing,
- certify,
- enjoining,
- Averring,
- Articulating,
- allege,
- Avowing,
- declare,
- Acknowledging,
- validating,
- Affirming,
- say,
- Testifying,
- confirming,
- Avouching,
- Claiming,
- Maintaining,
- Proposing,
- maintain,
- confirm,
- advancing,
- professing,
- contending,
- approving,
- Broaching,
- Corroborating,
- offering,
- suppose,
- Presenting,
- enjoin,
- Declaring,
- swanning,
- argue,
- arguing,
- Stating,
- affirm,
- Certifying,
- assert,
- plead,
- adducing,
- pretend,
- asserting,
- read.
How to use "Alleging" in context?
Alleging is the act of making a a charge against someone. Alleging can be done in a criminal or civil context. In a criminal context, alleging means giving information that leads to an arrest. In a civil context, alleging means filing a claim.
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Independent
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Verb, gerund or present participle
according, accounting, accusing, acting, advancing, agreeing, appealing, arguing, assuming, backing, bearing, believing, bringing, calling, closing, coming, communicating, complaining, concerning, concluding, condemning, confirming, contending, deciding, defending, demanding, denounce, detailing, determining, disclosing, drawing, emphasizing, exercising, favoring, finding, firing, focusing, focussing, following, giving, highlighting, holding, identifying, incriminating, informing, insisting, issuing, judging, laying, leading, listing, making, moving, naming, pleading, pointing, posting, pretending, protesting, pulling, pursuing, raising, reaching, reasoning, reflecting, regarding, reporting, ruling, saying, screaming, shooting, showing, signaling, speaking, supporting, symbolising, talking, telling, touching, transmitting, turning, urging, using, warning, wearing, where, winning, withdrawing, Acknowledging, Adjudicating, Advising, Advocating, Affirming, Aiming, Alluding, Announcing, Applying, Attempting, Blaming, Charging, Citing, Claiming, Declaring, Decrying, Denoting, Denouncing, Depending, Describing, Designating, Discussing, Displaying, Doing, Endorsing, Estimating, Evoking, Experiencing, Explaining, Exposing, Expressing, Forming, From, Furthering, Hinting, Implying, Indicating, Invoking, Maintaining, Mentioning, Noting, Notifying, Objecting, Outlining, Pertaining, Quoting, Recognizing, Referring, Registering, Relating, Relying, Respecting, Signalling, Testifying, Underpinning, Commenting, Committing, Considering, Containing, Criticising, Presenting, Proclaiming, Progressing, Promoting, Prosecuting, Proving, Purporting, Specifying, Stating, Submitting, Suggesting, Sustaining, benefiting, upholding, stressing, underlining, finalizing, summarizing, criticizing, demonstrating, representing, reviewing, pinpointing, backstopping, sponsoring, showcasing, spearheading, reaffirming, recognising, for.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
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Verb, gerund or present participle
asserting.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
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