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Definition: Swear In |
Swear InVerb1. Administer on oath to; "The speaker of the House swore in the new President". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commission | Put in commission, accredit, engage, hire, bespeak, appoint, name, nominate, return, ordain; install, induct, inaugurate, swear in, invest, crown; enroll, enlist; give power of attorney to. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Swear In |
| Specialty definitions using "swear in": POLYGLOT. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I've been married to Walt that long and I swear in all that time I just lie there thinkin' about my canning. (The Night of the Hunter; writing credit: James Agee; Davis Grubb) | |
Lyrics | But I swear in the days still left (Fields Of Gold; performing artist: Sting) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "swear in"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vë në be (adjure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قلده منصبا محلفا إياه اليمين. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | заклевам (adjure, attest, swear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vzít do přísahy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | faire prêter serment. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vereidigen, vereiden. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felesket (to swear in), esküt kivesz vkitől (to swear in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prestare giuramento (swear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | earsway inay empossar (enthrone, induct, instal, install, institute, invest, seat), ajuramentar. (various references) приводить к присяге (administer the oath, swear). (various references) juramentar (adjure, attest). (various references) låta avlägga ed (swear). (various references) yeminle işe başlatmak (swear into), yemin töreniyle başlatmak (swear into). (various references) приводити до присяги під час вступу на посаду. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: answer, arisen, arsine, rawins, resawn, rewins, wanier. | |
-2 letters: airns, anise, arise, earns, nares, naris, nears, rains, raise, ranis, rawin, reins, resaw, resin, rewan, rewin, rinse, risen, saner, sarin, sawer, serai, serin, sewan, sewar, sinew, siren, snare, swain, sware, swear, swine, wains, wairs, wanes, wares, warns, weans, wears, weirs, wines, wires, wiser, wrens. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-r-s-w" | |
+1 letter: resawing, swankier, swearing, tinwares, wariness. | |
+2 letters: answering, brawniest, ironwares, rewashing, scrawnier, unwariest, waterings, weariness. | |
+3 letters: beswarming, brawniness, chinawares, clearwings, drawknives, earwitness, handwrites, inwardness, lawyerings, prewashing, rainwashed, rainwashes, rainwaters, rawinsonde, scrawniest, stewarding, swaggering, swanneries, tawdriness, unswearing, unwariness, waitperson, wanderings, wardenries, wardenship, warinesses, warranties, wateriness, waterlines, weaponries, windbreaks, winemakers, wingspread, womanizers. | |
+4 letters: awestricken, brainpowers, brainwashed, brainwasher, brainwashes, cordwainers, dinnerwares, fisherwoman, forswearing, interweaves, lawrenciums, lowercasing, outswearing, rawinsondes, scrawniness, springwater, swarthiness, waitpersons, waitressing, wardenships, warehousing, waterskiing, wearinesses, weatherings, weimaraners, wharfingers, windjammers, windlestraw, wingspreads. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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