Dictionary Definition
swear
Verb
1 utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken
men were cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse, cuss, blaspheme, imprecate]
2 to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as
true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan]
3 promise solemnly; take an oath
5 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" [syn: trust, rely, bank] [ant: distrust, distrust] [also: sworn, swore]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /'swɛəɻ/
- Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
Etymology
From swerian.Noun
- A swearword.
Usage notes
- In sense 1, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- see
Derived terms
Translations
to take an oath
- Arabic:
- Bulgarian: заклевам се (zaklevam se)
- Chinese: 發誓, 发誓 (fāshì)
- Czech: přísahat
- Dutch: zweren, een eed afleggen
- Finnish: vannoa
- French: jurer
- German: schwören
- Hungarian: esküszik
- Icelandic: sverja
- Italian: giurare
- Japanese: 誓う (ちかう, chikau), 怒鳴る (どなる, donaru), ののしる (nonoshiru)
- Korean: 맹세하다 (maengsehada)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: سوێن خواردن
- Polish: przysięgać, przyrzekać
- Portuguese: jurar
- Russian: клясться (kljást’sja)
- Spanish: jurar
- Swedish: svära, svärja
- Telugu: ఒట్టు పెట్టు (oTTu peTTu), ప్రమాణం చేయు (pramaaNaM chaeyu)
to curse
- Arabic:
- Bulgarian: псувам
- Czech: klít
- Dutch: vloeken
- Finnish: kiroilla
- French: jurer
- German: schimpfen, fluchen
- Hungarian: káromkodik, szitkozódik
- Icelandic: blóta
- Italian: insultare
- Japanese: 悪態をつく (あくたいをつく, akutái o tsukú)
- Korean: 욕을 하다 (yogeul hada)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: جوێن دان
- Polish: przeklinać, kląć, zaklinać
- Portuguese: praguejar, rogar pragas
- Russian: ругаться (rugát’sja), выругаться (výrugat’sja)
- Spanish: blasfemar, renegar, jurar, echar ternos
- Swedish: svära
- Telugu: తిట్టు (tiTTu) ఒట్టు పెట్టు
- ttbc Indonesian: sumpah, bersumpah, menyumpahi, mengumpat
Extensive Definition
Swear may refer to:
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abjure,
abuse, acknowledge, adjure, administer an oath,
affirm, agree, allege, and candle, assert, assert under oath,
asseverate, assure, attest, aver, avoid, avouch, avow, bear witness, believe in,
blaspheme, book, certify, confess, count on, countersign, covenant, curse, curse and swear, cuss, declare, depone, depose, disclose, dysphemize, eschew, execrate, expletive, express the belief,
forgo, forsake, forswear, give evidence, give
up, go off, guarantee,
have confidence in, imprecate, insist, kiss the book, make a
promise, oath, pledge, plight, profess, promise, put under oath, put
upon oath, rely on, renounce, scatologize, shun, state, swear by, swear by bell,
swear in, swear off, swear the truth, swear to, swear to God, swear
to goodness, talk dirty, testify, throw over, troth, trust in, undertake, underwrite, use language,
vilify, vouch, vouchsafe, vow, warrant, witness