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reswear

reswear verb: to swear again or anew.

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 reswear

third-person singular presentreswears
present participlereswearing
pastreswore
past participleresworn
alternative formre-swear

Origin of reswear

From re- + swear.

Questions about reswear

What does reswear mean?
Reswear means to swear again or anew.
What part of speech is reswear?
Reswear is a verb.
What is the past tense of reswear?
The past tense of reswear is reswore.

Words near reswear in the dictionary

  1. reswam
  2. reswarm
  3. reswarmed
  4. reswarming
  5. reswarms
  6. reswear
  7. reswearing
  8. reswears
  9. resweep
  10. resweeping
  11. resweeps

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