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sworn
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse , cuss , blaspheme , imprecate ] to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm , verify , assert , ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a sworn statement (= one that you officially promise is true ) ▪ The reports were based on sworn statements of graduates of the terrorist training camp. sworn enemies (= enemies who will always hate each other ) ▪ The ...
Usage examples of sworn.
It was a sworn affidavit by Hermann Graebe, the manager and engineer of a branch office in the Ukraine of a German construction firm.
And, worse, she had betrayed most melancholy signs of sourness and agedness as soon as he had sworn himself to her fast and fixed.
My self-esteem was so wounded by this, and by his impoliteness in not answering my letter, with which he could certainly find no fault, whatever his criticism of my translation might be, that I became the sworn enemy of the great Voltaire.
She and Ribela had broken the prohibition during the battle of Arneis, but they had been sworn before the emperor not to do it again.
He, attempting to force the sworn word of a warrior, knew naught of my presence till my left hand had taken him by the hair, forcing his head back exposing his throat to the point of my dagger.
I have sworn to sweep them away, man, woman, and child, and be avenged upon all their unclean and faithless race.
In another two hours they were back on the ship, and Batman had sworn that he was never dating another stewardess for as long as he lived.
An army sworn to a god bereft of its power was, as far as Itkovian was concerned, no different from any other band of mercenaries: a collection of misfits and a scattering of professional soldiers.
When Sahra and Bibi had sworn, and Rinatto as well, Balanji stood and delivered his own oath, a promise of wisdom, protection and reward.
Two newly sworn watchmen remain behind and almost at once Conrade and Borachio enter.
A mere accident, right when he was about to make a breakthrough on the dangerous Soviet work he had sworn never to repeat?
He was a Blackhail hammerman, a sworn warrior of eight seasons, celebrated for saving Arlec Byce on Bannen Field and holding the Ganmiddich roundhouse with a force of just eleven.
They were the children of Saint Camber, and he had sworn to them, and he could not refuse anything they asked.
So cruel a desertion seemed to me unnatural, and I came to the conclusion that the Inquisitors had sworn my death.
Pliny, inspired with as truly Roman horror of quackery as the elder Cato,--who declared that the Greek doctors had sworn to exterminate all barbarians, including the Romans, with their drugs, but is said to have physicked his own wife to death, notwithstanding,--Pliny says, in so many words, that the cerates and cataplasms, plasters, collyria, and antidotes, so abundant in his time, as in more recent days, were mere tricks to make money.