swore

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UK/swɔː/US/swɔɹ//swo(ː)ɹ//swoə/

A form of swear — To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.

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Meanings

verb
  1. pastsimple past of swear
  2. colloquialdialectalparticiplepastpast participle of swear

    If that were all, for some have swore / As false as they, if th' did no more[…]

    1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 133
    2 more examples

    "[…]I have 'swore off' smoking. But you shall have your pipe (the old tobacco) or cigars among the books. It will be quite a delight."

    1990 [1875], R. H. Super, quoting Anthony Trollope, The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope, page 337

    “Were it not for the fancy French and Latin in it, I'd have swore it was the sort of thing I do not print as a rule, but being as how the order was from one of the members upstairs...”

    2014 January 14, Roberta Rogow, The Problem of the Surly Servant, →ISBN, page 109

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with swore

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Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

swore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/swore

MLA

“swore.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/swore. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “swore,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/swore.

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