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Swear   /swɛr/   Listen
Swear

verb
(past swore, formerly sware; past part. sworn; pres. part. swearing)
1.
Utter obscenities or profanities.  Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, cuss, imprecate.
2.
To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.  Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, verify.
3.
Promise solemnly; take an oath.
4.
Make a deposition; declare under oath.  Synonyms: depone, depose.
5.
Have confidence or faith in.  Synonyms: bank, rely, trust.  "Rely on your friends" , "Bank on your good education" , "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"



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"Swear" Quotes from Famous Books



... Young FRANK he frowneth grimly, And thou turn'st haughty pale. 'Tis not the taint of "City," For here be scores who sport Their Mayfair manners pretty In Cop-the-Needle Court. Ah, chill me not so coolly, A Croesus though I be— The one who loveth truly I swear is I—(or "me"?) ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893 • Various
... five francs out of her purse. "You will soon give them back to me. Have a little patience. He has been a good while paralysed. Think of that! And, if you liked, we could go to the chapel of Croix-Janval, and there, my love, I would swear before the Blessed Virgin to marry you as ...
— Bouvard and Pecuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life • Gustave Flaubert
... love of Heaven, please open the door. I swear to you that there is no reason in the world why I should be kept imprisoned here. If you will only help me to get away, I can prove it to you." This time the voice ...
— Madge Morton's Secret • Amy D. V. Chalmers
... not what she'd have me be, I am no courtier fair to see; And yet no other in the land, I swear, shall take my ...
— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee
... good Lysander! I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow, By his best arrow with the golden head, By the simplicity of Venus doves, By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves, And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage green, When ...
— Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess • Anna Benneson McMahan


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