Usually means: Claim without providing proof yet.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. allege: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. allege: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. allege: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. allege: Collins English Dictionary
  5. allege: Vocabulary.com
  6. Allege, allege: Wordnik
  7. allege: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. allege: Wiktionary
  9. allege: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. allege: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Allege: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Allege: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. allege: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. allege: Rhymezone
  15. allege: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. allege: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. allege: Free Dictionary
  18. allege: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. allege: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. allege: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  21. allege: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  22. allege: Infoplease Dictionary
  23. allege: Dictionary.com
  24. allege: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. allege: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. allege: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allege: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To state under oath, to plead.
verb:  (archaic) To cite or quote an author or his work for or against.
verb:  (transitive) To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.
verb:  (transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
verb:  (obsolete) To lighten, diminish.

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