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sworn

/swawrn, swohrn/US // swɔrn, swoʊrn //UK // (swɔːn) //

宣过誓的,宣誓,宣誓的,经宣誓的

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : past participle of swear.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having taken an oath: a duly elected and sworn official.
    • : bound by or as if by an oath or pledge.
    • : avowed; affirmed: He is my sworn enemy.

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Examples

  • But these must be proven under a signed and sworn statement and judged reasonable by the DOH.

  • Some secrets, it seems, must be kept even from elected representatives who could still be sworn to secrecy.

  • Her agency had to take her out of the country that very evening after it was made clear that the servant had sworn to kill her.

  • The capital of Chechnya, Grozny, was attacked Thursday by insurgents who may have sworn allegiance to ISIS.

  • But this week, even as a new cabinet was sworn in, the Houthis showed no signs of honoring their commitment to demobilize.

  • I could have sworn I heard a cry, and one of my men spoke in a tone that assured me my imagination had not been playing a trick.

  • Bondad sua, seor, I'll be sworn there is not one fit to tie the latchet of your shoe in the whole army.

  • When the oath usually represented as promissory is sworn, a covenant with God is thereby made.

  • The oath is sworn to himself; but He, and those whom he hath vested with office, will demand the fulfilment of it.

  • When the oath is given to confirm an assertion, it is sworn in confirmation of a covenant with God.