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sworn by

sworn by is the past participle 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 sworn by

What is sworn by the past participle of?
Sworn by is the past participle of swear by.

Words near sworn by in the dictionary

  1. sworn
  2. sworn at
  3. sworn blind
  4. sworn broker
  5. sworn brokers
  6. sworn by
  7. sworn down
  8. sworn in
  9. sworn like a cutter
  10. sworn like a pagan
  11. sworn like a sailor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sworn 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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