"swear at" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swears at",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swearing at",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swore at",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sworn at",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "swear<,,swore,sworn> at"
      },
      "expansion": "swear at (third-person singular simple present swears at, present participle swearing at, simple past swore at, past participle sworn at)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "67 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (at)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1885, Truth, volume 18, page 109",
          "text": "[…] in several instances there was another and quite a different red in the gown, which “swore” at its relative on the parasol.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Fanny Kemble, Eleanor Ransome, The Terrific Kemble: A Victorian Self-Portrait",
          "text": "Coal-scuttle poke-bonnets, short and scanty skirts, huge splay feet arrayed in indescribable shoes and boots, colours which swore at each other - these were the outward and visible signs of the British fair of that day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be disagreeably incongruous with, especially in colour; to clash."
      ],
      "id": "en-swear_at-en-verb-O89vekW3",
      "links": [
        [
          "incongruous",
          "incongruous"
        ],
        [
          "clash",
          "clash"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, dated, colloquial) To be disagreeably incongruous with, especially in colour; to clash."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "dated",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "One protester was arrested after swearing at a police officer."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see swear, at."
      ],
      "id": "en-swear_at-en-verb--LTlOWbh",
      "links": [
        [
          "swear",
          "swear#English"
        ],
        [
          "at",
          "at#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "swear at"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (at)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swears at",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swearing at",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swore at",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sworn at",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "swear<,,swore,sworn> at"
      },
      "expansion": "swear at (third-person singular simple present swears at, present participle swearing at, simple past swore at, past participle sworn at)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English dated terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1885, Truth, volume 18, page 109",
          "text": "[…] in several instances there was another and quite a different red in the gown, which “swore” at its relative on the parasol.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Fanny Kemble, Eleanor Ransome, The Terrific Kemble: A Victorian Self-Portrait",
          "text": "Coal-scuttle poke-bonnets, short and scanty skirts, huge splay feet arrayed in indescribable shoes and boots, colours which swore at each other - these were the outward and visible signs of the British fair of that day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be disagreeably incongruous with, especially in colour; to clash."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "incongruous",
          "incongruous"
        ],
        [
          "clash",
          "clash"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, dated, colloquial) To be disagreeably incongruous with, especially in colour; to clash."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "dated",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "One protester was arrested after swearing at a police officer."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see swear, at."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "swear",
          "swear#English"
        ],
        [
          "at",
          "at#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "swear at"
}