swear off

Verb

Meaning

promise to abstain from

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

give shun avoid stop drop yield surrender sacrifice reject kick deny resign quit refrain renounce

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Antonyms

have continue claim fight maintain accept

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Hypernyms

promise assure

Examples

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit. Rutherford B. Hayes

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas. Leo Burnett

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall! Aleister Crowley

Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple. Tiffanie DeBartolo

Don't swear off of beggary and jail. Russian Proverb

I have sworn off cigarettes altogether Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

swear like a pagan swear like a sailor swear like a trooper swear off drink swear on swear on a stack