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swear by

swear by verb: to invoke in an oath; to swear upon.

Verb

swear by (third-person singular simple present swears by, present participle swearing by, simple past swore by, past participle sworn by)

  1. (transitive) To invoke in an oath; to swear upon.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To trust wholeheartedly.
    • I swear by my Petit Larousse when it comes to learning French.
    • He swears by cream of tartar to make the meringues stiff.

swear by meaning in Malayalam

swear by in Malayalam

have faith in, express confidence in, trust
അഗാധവിശ്വാസം ഉണ്ടെന്നു പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കുക, വിശ്വാസം പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കുക, പൂർണ്ണവിശ്വാസം ഉണ്ടെന്നു പറയുക, വിശ്വാസം അർപ്പിക്കുക, വിശ്വാസത്തിലെടുക്കുക, വിശ്വാസമുണ്ടാകുക

Forms of swear by

third-person singular presentswears by
present participleswearing by
pastswore by
past participlesworn by

Questions about swear by

What does swear by mean?
Swear by means to invoke in an oath; to swear upon.
What is swear by in Malayalam?
Swear by in Malayalam is അഗാധവിശ്വാസം ഉണ്ടെന്നു പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കുക, വിശ്വാസം പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കുക, പൂർണ്ണവിശ്വാസം ഉണ്ടെന്നു പറയുക. See Swear by meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is swear by?
Swear by is a verb.
What is the past tense of swear by?
The past tense of swear by is swore by.

Words near swear by in the dictionary

  1. swear
  2. swear at
  3. swear blind
  4. swear box
  5. swear boxes
  6. swear by
  7. swear down
  8. swear in
  9. swear jar
  10. swear jars
  11. swear like a cutter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swear by (page history and authors); swear by (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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