swear
/ˈswɛɚ/ verbo B1En español: renegar, jurar, echar ternos, maldecir
- To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect. · The knight swore not to return to the palace until he had found the treasure.
- To take an oath that an assertion is true. · The witness swore that the person she had seen running out of the bank was a foot shorter than the accused.
- To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert. · I swear I don't know what you're talking about.· My little brother is such a pest, I swear.
- To administer an oath to (a person). · Let the witness be sworn.
- To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
He/she/it swears · Pasado swore · Participio pasado sworn · Forma en -ing swearing
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- swear
- He/she/it
- swears
- Pasado
- swore
- Participio pasado
- sworn
- Forma en -ing
- swearing
Un verbo irregular: apréndete de memoria su pasado y su participio pasado.
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
“She’s all right, too, I’d be sworn, even if she does have to work.
“Will you swear to be my friend forever and ever?” demanded Anne eagerly.
“Why it’s dreadfully wicked to swear,” she said rebukingly.
“Oh no, not my kind of swearing.
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