state

/steɪt/ verb (present participle stating, past tense and past participle stated)

Definition

› to officially say or write something: The medical report stated that he was mentally ill.

(Definition of state verb from the Webster's Essential Mini Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

false, not real or not legal

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