| 释义 | forswore
 for·swearalso fore·swear F0258300 (fôr-swâr′)v. for·swore (-swôr′), for·sworn (-swôrn′), for·swear·ing, for·swears v.tr.1. a.  To decide or declare that one will not or will no longer engage in (an activity or habit, for example): a political group that has forsworn violence.b.  To decide or declare that one will not or will no longer use or be associated with (something): "He had cast in his lot with the lions and forsworn the lambs" (Robert Louis Stevenson).c.  To disavow under oath: "He was forced to take an oath forswearing heretical views" (Garry Wills).2.  To make (oneself) guilty of perjury.v.intr. To swear falsely; commit perjuryIdiom:  be forsworn To commit perjury.[Middle English forsweren, from Old English forswerian : for-, wrongly; see  for- + swerian, to swear; see  swear.]LegalSeeforswear
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