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词汇 forswear
释义 forswear
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /fɔːˈsweər/ us /fɔːrˈswer/forswore | forsworn
to make a serious decision to stop doing something: 决心放弃,发誓戒除
to forswear all violence发誓停止所有暴力行为
Synonym
abjureformal
Compare
recantformal
retractformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stop having or doing something
abdicate
abdication
bandh
bomb
bomb out
break with something
butt
forfeit
forfeitable
forgo
forsake
give up
give up the ghostidiom
lay
self-denying
self-denyingly
self-renouncing
self-renunciation
self-sacrifice
throw

Examples of forswear


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Perhaps it would be best for them to own up to this and to forswear the claim to be offering a free speech argument for censorship.
We should do well to try to forswear for ever national introspection.
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Its members would have to forswear their national allegiances.
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Let them forswear violence and respect the right to live.
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He completely forswore criticism of the councils that keep empty so many homes in the public sector.
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It seems hard that people who forswear present pleasure for future frugality should be penalised in this way.
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There is no suggestion—and there should never be—that by going through an administrative procedure a citizen forswears his right to litigation.
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They must forswear their allegiance to the nation in which they were born.
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To his credit, he forswore the public payroll.
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Let us forswear forever the policy of appeasement.
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It is obvious that, even now, it is still not prepared to forswear those increases.
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There has been no suggestion that they should forswear the obligations in which they have entered.
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Until they forswear the one for the other, he does not have the case of the argument that he is putting forward.
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People joining the armed forces forswear their human rights.
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Moreover, they forswear any loyalty to the country from which they come.
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