Dictionary entry

Swear blind

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Definition

swear /sweǝ(r)/ v ( pt swore /swↄ:(r)/ ; pp sworn /swↄ:n/) ၁။ ~ (at sb/ sth) ဆဲသည္။ ဆိုသည္။ She bumped her head in the doorway and swore loudly. ❍ The foreman is always swearing at the workers. ၂။ တိုင္တည္ သည္။ သစၥာဆိုသည္။ I've never seen him before, I swear it. ❍ She swore that she'd never seen him. ❍ I could have sworn (that) (ie I was certain) I heard a knock at the door. ❍ I swore not to tell anybody about it. ၃။ က်မ္း က်ိန္သည္။ Witnesses have to swear on the Bible. ❍ They have sworn (an oath of) allegiance to the crown. ❍ Are you willing to swear in court that you saw him do it? ❍ You have sworn to tell the truth. See also SWORN 2 ❏ swear blind [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဘုရားစူး က်ိန္တြယ္ေျပာသည္။ She swore blind (that) she'd never received my letter. ❏ swear by sb/ sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ တိုင္တည္က်ိန္ဆိုသည္။ I swear by almighty God that I will tell the truth. ၂။ ( infml ) စြဲၿမဲယံုၾကည္သည္။ Most of my friends use word processors but I still swear by my old typewriter. ❏ swear sb in [ PHRV ] (esp passive) က်မ္းသစၥာ က်ိန္ဆို သည္။ The President has to be sworn in publicly. ❍ Let the witness be sworn in. ❏ swear like a trooper [ IDM ] ဆဲေရးတိုင္းထြာသည္။ ❏ swear to sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) က်ိန္ေျပာသည္။ I think I've met him before, but I wouldn't/ couldn't swear to it (ie I'm not completely sure). ❏ swear-word n ဖ႐ုသဝါစာ။ ‘Damn’ and ‘bloody’ are common swear-words.

Examples

  1. That’s the first time I’ve ever heard him swear.
  2. [swear at] : She was shouting and swearing at everyone.
  3. [swear profusely] : I hammered my thumb and then swore profusely.
  4. I’ve never seen him before – I swear!
  5. [swear (that)] : She swears that this is the man who attacked her.
  6. [swear (that)] : You swore that you would never see her again.
  7. [swear to do something] : He swore to stay out of politics when he retired.
  8. [swear vengeance against/on someone] : Marshall swore vengeance against his brother’s killers.
  9. Members have to swear an oath of secrecy.
  10. [swear (your) allegiance to someone] : They have to swear allegiance to the Queen.