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swearing by

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

Meaning of swear by

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.

Questions about swearing by

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

Words near swearing by in the dictionary

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

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