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re-swear

re-swear is the alternative spelling of reswear.

Meaning of reswear

Verb

reswear (third-person singular simple present reswears, present participle reswearing, simple past reswore, past participle resworn)

  1. (transitive) To swear again or anew.
    • “I don’t think it’s credible to state that the city should reswear officers who were already sworn in,” Mr. Wright said.2007 August 12, “For Want of a Swearing In, an Arrest Is Lost in Indiana”, in New York Times

Forms of re-swear

third-person singular presentre-swears
present participlere-swearing
pastre-swore
past participlere-sworn

Origin of re-swear

From re- + swear.

Questions about re-swear

What is re-swear the alternative spelling of?
Re-swear is the alternative spelling of reswear.

Words near re-swear in the dictionary

  1. re-surface
  2. re-surfaced
  3. re-surfaces
  4. re-surfacing
  5. re-surveillance
  6. re-swear
  7. re-swearing
  8. re-swears
  9. re-swore
  10. re-sworn
  11. re-take

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-swear (page history and authors); reswear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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