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swear 音標拼音: [sw'ɛr] vt. 發誓,宣誓,咒罵,使宣誓
vi. 發誓,詛咒
n. 詛咒,誓言 發誓,宣誓,咒罵,使宣誓發誓,詛咒詛咒,誓言 swear v 1: utter obscenities or profanities; " The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" [ synonym: { curse}, { cuss}, { blaspheme}, { swear}, { imprecate}] 2: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; " Before God I swear I am innocent" [ synonym: { affirm}, { verify}, { assert}, { avow}, { aver}, { swan}, { swear}] 3: promise solemnly; take an oath 4: make a deposition; declare under oath [ synonym: { swear}, { depose}, { depone}] 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" [ synonym: { trust}, { swear}, { rely}, { bank}] [ ant: { distrust}, { mistrust}, { suspect}] Swear \ Swear\, v. i. [ imp. { Swore}, formerly { Sware}; p. p. { Sworn}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Swearing}.] [ OE. swerien, AS. swerian; akin to D. zweren, OS. swerian, OHG. swerien, G. schw[" o] ren, Icel. sverja, Sw. sv[ aum] rja, Dan. svaerge, Icel. & Sw. svara to answer, Dan. svare, Dan. & Sw. svar an answer, Goth. swaran to swear, and perhaps to E. swarm. [ root] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Ye shall swear by my name falsely. -- Lev. xix. 12. [ 1913 Webster] I swear by all the Roman gods. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Law) To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] [ I] swore little; diced not above seven times a week. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { 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] [ 1913 Webster]
Swear \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] Swear unto me here by God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me. -- Gen. xxi. 23. [ 1913 Webster] He swore consent to your succession. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Law) 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. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his friend. -- Johnson. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To appeal to by an oath. [ 1913 Webster] Now, by Apollo, king, Thou swear' st thy gods in vain. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 85 Moby Thesaurus words for " swear": 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
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