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Swear In

Definition: Swear In

Swear In

Verb

1. 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.
 


Synonyms within Context: Swear In

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Swear In

Specialty definitions using "swear in": POLYGLOT. (references)

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Modern Usage: Swear In

DomainUsage

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.

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Modern Translation: Swear In

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

   

Portuguese

  

empossar (enthrone, induct, instal, install, institute, invest, seat), ajuramentar. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

приводить к присяге (administer the oath, swear). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

juramentar (adjure, attest). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

låta avlägga ed (swear). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yeminle işe başlatmak (swear into), yemin töreniyle başlatmak (swear into). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

приводити до присяги під час вступу на посаду. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Swear In

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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