See swear down on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "swears down",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "swearing down",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "swore down",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "sworn down",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "swear<,,swore,sworn> down"
},
"expansion": "swear down (third-person singular simple present swears down, present participle swearing down, simple past swore down, past participle sworn down)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To promise that something is (not) true."
],
"id": "en-swear_down-en-verb-PJN3jDNV",
"links": [
[
"promise",
"promise"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "30 7 62",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 8 63",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"down\"",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "31 7 61",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "30 4 66",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To promise; swear; give one's word."
],
"id": "en-swear_down-en-verb-sJlWvTvK",
"links": [
[
"promise",
"promise"
],
[
"swear",
"swear"
],
[
"give one's word",
"give one's word"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-swear down.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "swear down"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "swear down",
"name": "en-interjection"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Multicultural London English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Northern England English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, Martin Stanley, The Gamblers, Martin Stanley, →ISBN, page 150:",
"text": "“Swear down. He's found religion. Well, that's what I've heard anyway.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Antonin Varenne, Loser's Corner, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
"text": "It's nothing sketchy, swear down, it's just this one thing.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Cath Staincliffe, The Silence Between Breaths, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
"text": "Swear down. It's not all champagne and party poppers. Not.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"I promise; no lie."
],
"id": "en-swear_down-en-intj-3GGoIBC8",
"raw_glosses": [
"(MLE, Northern England) I promise; no lie."
],
"tags": [
"Multicultural-London-English",
"Northern-England"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-swear down.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "swear down"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs formed with \"down\"",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "swears down",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "swearing down",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "swore down",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "sworn down",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "swear<,,swore,sworn> down"
},
"expansion": "swear down (third-person singular simple present swears down, present participle swearing down, simple past swore down, past participle sworn down)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To promise that something is (not) true."
],
"links": [
[
"promise",
"promise"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To promise; swear; give one's word."
],
"links": [
[
"promise",
"promise"
],
[
"swear",
"swear"
],
[
"give one's word",
"give one's word"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-swear down.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "swear down"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs formed with \"down\"",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "swear down",
"name": "en-interjection"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Multicultural London English",
"Northern England English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, Martin Stanley, The Gamblers, Martin Stanley, →ISBN, page 150:",
"text": "“Swear down. He's found religion. Well, that's what I've heard anyway.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Antonin Varenne, Loser's Corner, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
"text": "It's nothing sketchy, swear down, it's just this one thing.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Cath Staincliffe, The Silence Between Breaths, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
"text": "Swear down. It's not all champagne and party poppers. Not.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"I promise; no lie."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(MLE, Northern England) I promise; no lie."
],
"tags": [
"Multicultural-London-English",
"Northern-England"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-swear down.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-swear_down.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "swear down"
}
Download raw JSONL data for swear down meaning in All languages combined (3.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.