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take the pledge

take the pledge verb: to promise to abstain from alcohol.

Verb

take the pledge (third-person singular simple present takes the pledge, present participle taking the pledge, simple past took the pledge, past participle taken the pledge)

  1. (US, dated) To promise to abstain from alcohol.
    • Glad she was now that he had taken the pledge as a younger man; but for that nothing would have kept him from the drink during the bad times they had gone through.1913, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, the, pledge.

Forms of take the pledge

third-person singular presenttakes the pledge
present participletaking the pledge
pasttook the pledge
past participletaken the pledge

Questions about take the pledge

What does take the pledge mean?
Take the pledge means to promise to abstain from alcohol.
What part of speech is take the pledge?
Take the pledge is a verb.
What is the past tense of take the pledge?
The past tense of take the pledge is took the pledge.

Words near take the pledge in the dictionary

  1. take the micky
  2. take the offensive
  3. take the pee
  4. take the piss
  5. take the place of
  6. take the pledge
  7. take the plunge
  8. take the point
  9. take the purple
  10. take the rap
  11. take the red eye

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