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  • past tense form of swear.
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swore

American  
[swawr, swohr] / swɔr, swoʊr /

verb

  1. a simple past tense of swear.


swore British  
/ swɔː /

verb

  1. the past tense of swear

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Swore Kuhn: "I'll never go back to politics again."

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the President also: > Swore in Christian Herter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Swore he’d rather go naked than wear some other kid’s rags.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

Swore it was the electricity; said he swallered it, and it got into his system and cured him.

From Geoffrey Strong by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

Swore he by God’s majesty, Sorer far is his regret For bright-favoured Nicolette p. 68Than his kinsfolk every one, Though they all were dead and gone.

From Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French by Bourdillon, Francis William

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