What is the meaning of sworn?

Utter obscenities or profanities.
- usage: "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"
- synonyms: curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate
To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
- usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
- synonyms: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear
Promise solemnly; take an oath.
- synonyms: swear
Make a deposition; declare under oath.
- synonyms: swear, depose, depone
Have confidence or faith in.
- usage: "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"
- synonyms: trust, swear, rely, bank

Bound by or as if by an oath.
- usage: "according to an early tradition became his sworn brother"; "sworn enemies"
- synonyms: pledged
Bound by or stated on oath. "now my sworn friend and then mine enemy- Shakespeare

|15 years ago|779 views|share |citing

APA	WordNet. (2010). sworn. Retrieved September 21, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/sworn/definitions/1184925
Chicago	WordNet. 2010. "sworn" http://smartdefine.org/sworn/definitions/1184925 (accessed September 21, 2026).
Harvard	WordNet 2010, sworn, Smart Define, viewed 21 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/sworn/definitions/1184925>.
MLA	WordNet. "sworn" 23 October 2010. Web. 21 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/sworn/definitions/1184925>

Alternative definitions by