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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



... very lines, and dragging the Teucrians into the deadly battle. I counselled Juturna, I confess it, to succour her hapless brother, and for his life's sake favoured a greater daring; yet not the arrow-shot, not the bending of the bow, I swear by the merciless well-head of the Stygian spring, the single ordained dread of the gods in heaven. And now I retire, and leave the battle in loathing. [819-854]This thing I beseech thee, that is bound by no fatal ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil • Virgil
... But first will you swear as on the holy ring that of what you shall do for me no man ...
— Havelok The Dane - A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln • Charles Whistler
... to be polite. Tut, tut! as dad says when he can't swear before ladies, I shan't make the ...
— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy
... being as expressive as the face to those whose view is thus limited, she could swear to scores of the passers-by in a ...
— Echoes of the War • J. M. Barrie
... had been deprived of his chair in the College de France, lost also his post in the Archives upon his refusal, in 1852, to swear allegiance to the Emperor. Near Nantes in his tempest-beaten home, near Genoa in a fold of the Apennines, where he watched the lizards sleep or slide, a great appeasement came upon his spirit. ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden


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