Usually means: Promise or curse using words.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word swear:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. swear: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. swear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. swear: Collins English Dictionary
  5. swear: Vocabulary.com
  6. Swear, swear: Wordnik
  7. swear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. swear: Wiktionary
  9. swear: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. swear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. swear: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. swear: Dictionary.com
  13. swear: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. swear: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Swear (The Walking Dead), Swear (Tim Scott McConnell song), Swear, The Swear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Swear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. swear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. swear: Rhymezone
  19. swear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. swear: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. swear: Free Dictionary
  22. swear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. swear: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. swear: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. swear: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. swear: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. swear: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swear: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. swear: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swear: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swear, swear: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See swearer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.
verb:  (transitive) To take an oath that an assertion is true.
verb:  (transitive) To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert.
verb:  (transitive) To administer an oath to (a person).
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
noun:  A swear word.
adjective:  (Northern England, Scotland) Heavy.
adjective:  (Northern England, Scotland) Top-heavy; too high.
adjective:  (Northern England, Scotland) Dull; lazy; slow.
adjective:  (Northern England, Scotland) Reluctant; unwilling.
adjective:  (Northern England, Scotland) Niggardly.
noun:  (Northern England, Scotland) A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
verb:  (Northern England, Scotland) To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.

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