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resworn

resworn is the past participle 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

Questions about resworn

What is resworn the past participle of?
Resworn is the past participle of reswear.

Words near resworn in the dictionary

  1. reswim
  2. reswimming
  3. reswims
  4. reswollen
  5. reswore
  6. resworn
  7. reswum
  8. resyllabification
  9. resyllabifications
  10. resyllabified
  11. resyllabifies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: resworn (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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