Crossword clues for promised
The Collaborative International Dictionary
committed \committed\ adj.
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Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude. Opposite of uncommitted.
Note: [Narrower terms: bound up, involved, wrapped up; dedicated, devoted; pledged, sworn]
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Associated in an exclusive sexual relationship; also called attached. Opposite of unattached.
Note: [Narrower terms: affianced, bespoken, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate); married]
Syn: attached.
Consigned involuntarily to custody, as in a prison or mental institution.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: promise)
WordNet
adj. assured by (usually) spoken agreement; "the promised toy"; "the promised land"
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "promised".
Sri magician into the bargain, I was fed and accommodated at no expense, and promised a ship to wherever I wished to journey.
I have promised myself to be guided entirely by your advice, and I entreat you to remain always my best friend.
Seeing herself made rich by my liberality, she kissed my hands, knelt down, and bursting into tears promised to follow my advice carefully.
I promised to follow his advice, and I then paid a visit to the superintendent of police.
She listened attentively to my advice as to her conduct towards her new lover and the world in general, and promised to follow it.
Zuliani, brother to the Duchess of Fiano, gave me the same advice, and promised to use all his interest in my behalf.
Those barbarians, allured by presents and subsidies, had promised to invade Persia with a numerous body of light cavalry.
Triumvir of Arcos, but we did, and now we have a friend here who has promised to lay our case before the other two members of the Triumvirate.
The hallway was bleak, decorated with yellowed grade sheets from the previous semester and the flyers that promised overseas employment or assistantships at unfamiliar colleges.
I hasted to take her my reply in my own person, and promised not to neglect her, assuring her that at all hazards she might rely on me.
Adams had promised to inform Saybrook of her trip when he returned, and Grace Bartram, supplied with funds from the estate, had left for New York.
You must come for dinner again tomorrow, for the Benji women have promised me a little chicha.
After this, of her own movement, she never spoke of Gordon, and Bernard made up his mind that she had promised her mother to accept him if he should repeat his proposal, and that as her heart was not in the matter she preferred to drop a veil over the prospect.
The unlucky promised symphony has haunted my imagination ever since it was bespoken, and it is only, alas!
Charlie Foster of Tinning Beck, has promised to keep her in Cumberland till the blast blaw by.