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swearing off

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

Meaning of swear off

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To quit or cease completely, or to promise to quit, as a bad habit.
    • One of these days, he thinks he will swear off his nightly television regimen and get some exercise.

Questions about swearing off

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

Words near swearing off in the dictionary

  1. swearing jars
  2. swearing like a cutter
  3. swearing like a pagan
  4. swearing like a sailor
  5. swearing like a trooper
  6. swearing off
  7. swearing on
  8. swearing on a stack
  9. swearing on a stack of Bibles
  10. swearing the peace
  11. swearing to God

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