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swearing upon

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

Meaning of swear upon

Verb

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

  1. (formal, transitive) To take an oath on someone or something.
    • to swear upon the Holy Writ to speak the truth

Questions about swearing upon

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

Words near swearing upon in the dictionary

  1. swearing on
  2. swearing on a stack
  3. swearing on a stack of Bibles
  4. swearing the peace
  5. swearing to God
  6. swearing upon
  7. swearing-in
  8. Swearingen
  9. Swearingens
  10. swearingly
  11. swearings

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