SWORE
SWEAR
count, bet, depend, swear, rely, bank, look, calculate, reckon
(verb) have faith or confidence in; “you can count on me to help you any time”; “Look to your friends for support”; “You can bet on that!”; “Depend on your family in times of crisis”
curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate
(verb) utter obscenities or profanities; “The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street”
swear
(verb) promise solemnly; take an oath
affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear
(verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; “Before God I swear I am innocent”
swear, depose, depone
(verb) make a deposition; declare under oath
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
swore
simple past tense of swear
(dialectal or colloquial) past participle of swear
Anagrams
• Rowse, WOREs, owers, owres, resow, serow, sower, sowre, worse
Source: Wiktionary
Swore,
Definition: imp. of Swear.
SWEAR
Swear, v. i. [imp. Swore, formerly Sware (; p. p. Sworn; p. pr. & vb.
n. Swearing.] Etym: [OE. swerien, AS. swerian; akin to D. zweren, OS.
swerian, OHG. swerien, G. schwören, Icel. sverja, Sw. svärja, Dan.
sværge, Icel. & Sw. svara to answer, Dan. svare, Dan. & Sw. svar an
answer, Goth. swaran to swear, and perhaps to E. swarm. *177. Cf.
Answer.]
1. To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for
the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve
on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one
regarded as sacred, as the Bible, the Koran, etc.
Ye shall swear by my name falsely. Lev. xix. 12.
I swear by all the Roman gods. Shak.
2. (Law)
Definition: To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a
statement; he swore against the prisoner.
3. To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name
of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation;
to curse.
[I] swore little; diced not above seven times a week. Shak.
To swear by, to place great confidence in a person or thing; to trust
implicitly as an authority. "I simply meant to ask if you are one of
those who swear by Lord Verulam." Miss Edgeworth.
– To swear off, to make a solemn vow, or a serious resolution, to
abstain from something; as, to swear off smoking. [Slang]
Swear, v. t.
1. To utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God for the truth of
the declaration; to make (a promise, threat, or resolve) under oath.
Swear unto me here by God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me.
Gen. xxi. 23.
He swore consent to your succession. Shak.
2. (Law)
Definition: To put to an oath; to cause to take an oath; to administer an
oath to; -- ofetn followed by in or into; as, to swear witnesses; to
swear a jury; to swear in an officer; he was sworn into office.
3. To declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his
friend. Johnson.
4. To appeal to by an oath.
Now, by Apollo, king, Thou swear'st thy gods in vain. Shak.
To swear the peace against one, to make oath that one is under the
actual fear of death or bodily harm from the person, in which case
the person must find sureties that he will keep the peace.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition