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swore by

swore by is the simple past 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 swore by

What is swore by the simple past of?
Swore by is the simple past of swear by.

Words near swore by in the dictionary

  1. swordtips
  2. swordwork
  3. swore
  4. swore at
  5. swore blind
  6. swore by
  7. swore down
  8. swore in
  9. swore like a cutter
  10. swore like a pagan
  11. swore like a sailor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swore 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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