Definitions for alleges

alleges al·lege

Spelling: [uh-lej]
IPA: /əˈlɛdʒ/

Alleges is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in alleges (aeeglls).

Definitions for alleges

verb (used with object)

  1. to assert without proof.
  2. to declare with positiveness; affirm; assert:
  3. to declare before a court or elsewhere, as if under oath.
  4. to plead in support of; offer as a reason or excuse.
  5. Archaic. to cite or quote in confirmation.

Origin of alleges

1275-1325; Middle English alleg(g)en, probably Old French aleguer (Medieval Latin, Latin allēgāre to adduce in support of a plea; see allegation), conflated wit

Examples for alleges

Even Mr. Cunningham alleges this to be the case, but I cannot at all agree with him.

Pagi also alleges that Virgil was the fifth Bishop of Salzburg.

"You have confessed to the truth of what she alleges," said my father.

He alleges that a third boy, aged 10 or 11, was deliberately hit by a car and killed by a member of the pedophile network in 1979.

Morabin says that there is no proof of this, and alleges that Brutus did it for stage effect.

As a final indignity, Green alleges that he dropped two $100 bills on her end table and left.

When she came to, she alleges that she woke up in his bed and Cosby had his shirt off.

Rather, she alleges that Madaleno has made it a point of heated contention throughout the campaign.

She alleges that he and twenty-or-so named colleagues collectively abused “alcohol, cocaine, mushrooms, Special-K, heroin.”

He died unmarried, though Lady Cowper alleges “he has eight Wives.”

Word Value for alleges
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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