[{"_id":"574623eb49d89b54063c48e7","lemma":"assert","pos":"verb","lexicalEntryId":"WktEN_lexicalEntry_24569","senses":[{"label":"","definition":"To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.","examples":["he would often assert his beliefs to us"],"relations":[]},{"label":"","definition":"To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.","examples":["to assert one's authority","Salman Rushdie has asserted his right ... to be identified as the author of this work"],"relations":[]},{"label":"","definition":"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.","examples":[],"relations":[]},{"label":"computer science","definition":"to make true; to make equal to 1.","examples":[],"relations":[]}]}]