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swears by

swears by is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 swears by

What is swears by the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Swears by is the third-person singular simple present indicative of swear by.

Words near swears by in the dictionary

  1. swearingly
  2. swearings
  3. swears
  4. swears at
  5. swears blind
  6. swears by
  7. swears down
  8. swears in
  9. swears like a cutter
  10. swears like a pagan
  11. swears like a sailor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swears 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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