swore
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) enPR: swôr, IPA(key): /swɔɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: swô, IPA(key): /swɔː/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: swōr, IPA(key): /swo(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /swoə/
Audio (US): (file) - (nonstandard but traditional, several locations) enPR: swo͝or, IPA(key): /swʊɹ/, /swʊə/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Verb
[edit]swore
- simple past of swear
- (dialectal or colloquial) past participle of swear
- 1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 133:
- If that were all, for some have swore / As false as they, if th' did no more […]
- 1990 [1875], R. H. Super, quoting Anthony Trollope, The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope[1], page 337:
- " […] I have 'swore off' smoking. But you shall have your pipe (the old tobacco) or cigars among the books. It will be quite a delight."
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]swore
- Alternative form of sware
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