swear
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Is swear a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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- Wordle Yes
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What is the meaning of swear?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.Examples: "The knight swore not to return to the palace until he had found the treasure."Synonyms: pledge, vowambitransitive
2. (transitive) To take an oath that an assertion is true.Examples: "The witness swore that the person she had seen running out of the bank was a foot shorter than the accused."Synonyms: depose, affirm, testifytransitive
3. (transitive) To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert.Examples: "I swear I don't know what you're talking about."; "My little brother is such a pest, I swear."; "The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face."transitive
4. (transitive) To administer an oath to (a person).Examples: "Let the witness be sworn."transitive
5. (ambitransitive) To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.Examples: "An Australian was once appointed on contract, but he swore too much."Synonyms: curse, execrate, turn the air blueambitransitive
adj (English)
1. (Northern England, Scotland) Heavy.Synonyms: massive, massy, weightyNorthern-EnglandScotland
2. (Northern England, Scotland) Top-heavy; too high.Synonyms: overbalancedNorthern-EnglandScotland
3. (Northern England, Scotland) Dull; lazy; slow.Examples: "Rise up gueedewife, an dinna be sweer, / B'soothan, b'soothan, / An deal yir chirity t' the peer, / An awa b'mony a toon."Synonyms: idle, work-shy, lazy, fainéant, bone-idle, idle, indolent, inertNorthern-EnglandScotland
4. (Northern England, Scotland) Reluctant; unwilling.Examples: "But faith, to glump ye I'd be sweer / I wish ye luck o' this new year"; "My father will maybe be a wee sweer to take ye in, but ye maun make your way on him the best gate ye can; he has the best stockit pantry on Teviot head, but a bit of a Laidlaw's fault, complaining aye maist when he has least reason."Synonyms: disinclined, loathNorthern-EnglandScotland
5. (Northern England, Scotland) Niggardly.Examples: "For if my Pen shall turn as Sweir's their Purse / I fear this is the last I'll write in Verse"Synonyms: miserly, penurious, as tight as Dick's hatband, cheap, cheeseparing, chintzy, close, close as waxNorthern-EnglandScotland
noun (English)
1. (Northern England, Scotland) A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.Synonyms: nap, undermealNorthern-EnglandScotland
verb (English)
1. (Northern England, Scotland) To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.Synonyms: laze about, loaf, take it easyNorthern-EnglandScotland
Definition source: Wiktionary