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swearing blind

swearing blind is the present participle and gerund of swear blind.

Meaning of swear blind

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial) To insist strongly (that something is true).
    • He had a reputation as a womanizer, but he swore blind that he had met the right girl in me and said he wanted to settle down.

Questions about swearing blind

What is swearing blind the present participle and gerund of?
Swearing blind is the present participle and gerund of swear blind.

Words near swearing blind in the dictionary

  1. swearily
  2. swearin'
  3. sweariness
  4. swearing
  5. swearing at
  6. swearing blind
  7. swearing by
  8. swearing contest
  9. swearing contests
  10. swearing down
  11. swearing in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swearing blind (page history and authors); swear blind (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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