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swears off

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

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

Words near swears off in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swears 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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