take the pledge

verb

To promise to abstain from alcohol.

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Meanings

verbtake the pledge (third-person singular simple present takes the pledge, present participle taking the pledge, simple past took the pledge, past participle taken the pledge)

present singular third person takes the pledge · participle present taking the pledge · past took the pledge · participle past taken the pledge

  1. USdatedTo promise to abstain from alcohol.

    Glad she was now that he had taken the pledge as a younger man; but for that nothing would have kept him from the drink during the bad times they had gone through.

    1913, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, the, pledge.
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “take the pledge,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/take%20the%20pledge.

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