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sworn   (TTS Sound)

The verb swear has 5 senses

• curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate -- (utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street")


• affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear -- (to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent")


• swear -- (promise solemnly; take an oath)


• swear, depose, depone -- (make a deposition; declare under oath)


• trust, swear, rely, bank -- (have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes")

The adj sworn has 2 senses

• pledged, sworn -- (bound by or as if by an oath; "according to an early tradition became his sworn brother"; "sworn enemies")


• sworn -- (bound by or stated on oath; "now my sworn friend and then mine enemy"- Shakespeare)