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What does the word swear mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive

To vow.

Part of speech: verb transitive

To affirm solemnly, with an appeal to God or something sacred; make a solemn affirmation.

Part of speech: verb transitive

To utter profanely.

Part of speech: verb transitive

To administer a legal oath to.

Part of speech: verb

To give testimony under oath.

Part of speech: verb

To blaspheme; curse.

Part of speech: present participle

Swearing.

Part of speech: noun

Swearer.

Usage examples for swear

All my people swear by him." – Somewhere in France by Richard Harding Davis
Can you swear it was her? – Caught in a Trap by John C. Hutcheson
He has to be the sort of a man his men will swear by. – The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham

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