Definition of "swore" []

• Past tense of swear. (verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You swore -- you never contented yourself with merely saying a thing -- you _swore_ that, as far as lay in your power, you'd make my wretched life pleasant for me."
• "Saying Carl Levin swore repeatedly, when he was actually quoting from an email, is like saying an actor playing Hamlet killed somebody with a sword."
• "About five years after Klein swore off opinion-based prime-time programming for the network and embarked on a crusade to find an audience more interested in straight news reporting, ratings-parched CNN this past summer started crawling back to dip its dehydrated tongue into the restorative waters of debate TV."