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overswear

overswear verb: to swear excessively; to make too many oaths.

Verb

overswear (third-person singular simple present overswears, present participle overswearing, simple past overswore, past participle oversworn)

  1. (intransitive) To swear excessively; to make too many oaths.
    • […] early modern Catholic theologians needed to curb the tendency of overswearing in order to institutionalize and regulate the oath more firmly as a sacrament of power.2013, Stefania Tutino, Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture, page 153
  2. (obsolete) To swear over again, or in opposition to the oath sworn by another.

Forms of overswear

third-person singular presentoverswears
present participleoverswearing
pastoverswore
past participleoversworn

Origin of overswear

From over- + swear.

Questions about overswear

What does overswear mean?
Overswear means to swear excessively; to make too many oaths.
What part of speech is overswear?
Overswear is a verb.
What is the past tense of overswear?
The past tense of overswear is overswore.

Words near overswear in the dictionary

  1. overswarms
  2. oversway
  3. overswayed
  4. overswaying
  5. oversways
  6. overswear
  7. overswearing
  8. overswears
  9. oversweat
  10. oversweated
  11. oversweating

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