Verb

• S: (v) formalize (formalize%2:41:00::), formalise (formalise%2:41:00::) (make formal or official) "We formalized the appointment and gave him a title"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) declare (declare%2:32:04::), adjudge (adjudge%2:32:00::), hold (hold%2:32:11::) (declare to be) "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent"
• S: (v) admit (admit%2:32:00::), acknowledge (acknowledge%2:32:00::) (declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of) "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten"
• S: (v) superannuate (superannuate%2:32:00::) (declare to be obsolete)
• S: (v) bastardize (bastardize%2:32:00::), bastardise (bastardise%2:32:00::) (declare a child to be illegitimate)
• S: (v) certify (certify%2:32:01::) (declare legally insane)
• S: (v) call (call%2:32:08::) (declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee) "call a runner out"
• S: (v) beatify (beatify%2:32:00::) (declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood) "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican"
• S: (v) canonize (canonize%2:32:00::), canonise (canonise%2:32:00::), saint (saint%2:32:00::) (declare (a dead person) to be a saint) "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized"
• S: (v) pronounce (pronounce%2:32:00::), label (label%2:32:01::), judge (judge%2:32:00::) (pronounce judgment on) "They labeled him unfit to work here"
• S: (v) cancel (cancel%2:41:00::), strike down (strike_down%2:41:00::) (declare null and void; make ineffective) "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law"
• S: (v) formalize (formalize%2:41:00::), formalise (formalise%2:41:00::) (make formal or official) "We formalized the appointment and gave him a title"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) validate (validate%2:41:00::), formalize (formalize%2:41:01::), formalise (formalise%2:41:01::) (declare or make legally valid)