Crossword-Solution: FORSWEAR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Forswear | v. i. | To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. |
| Forswear | v. i. | To deny upon oath. |
| Forswear | v. i. | To swear falsely; to commit perjury. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| FORSWEAR | anagram | FARWORSE |
We have 66 clues for the answer “FORSWEAR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Renounce firmly | 1 answer |
| Reject under oath | 1 answer |
| Old-style "formally reject" | 1 answer |
| perjure | 3 answers |
| fail in duty | 5 answers |
| BE false | 6 answers |
| swear off | 8 answers |
| forego | 11 answers |
| BEAR false witness | 11 answers |
| unsay | 25 answers |
| resile | 27 answers |
| palinode | 29 answers |
| Go back (on) | 29 answers |
| Jilt | 29 answers |
| apologise | 30 answers |
| Countermand | 32 answers |
| apostatise | 34 answers |
| rescind | 36 answers |
| Desist | 36 answers |
| Abnegate | 36 answers |
| ostracise | 38 answers |
| Retract | 38 answers |
| Renege | 39 answers |
| repel | 40 answers |
| Waive | 40 answers |
| revoke | 42 answers |
| Abdicate | 42 answers |
| force out | 42 answers |
| Forsake | 42 answers |
| redress | 44 answers |
| Recant | 44 answers |
| Negate | 45 answers |
| Relin-quish | 46 answers |
| disclaim | 46 answers |
| Packaging | 47 answers |
| Abjure | 47 answers |
| Banish | 47 answers |
| rule out | 47 answers |
| Betray | 48 answers |
| Counteract | 49 answers |
| Disavow | 49 answers |
| forgo | 49 answers |
| Resign | 49 answers |
| Re-nounce | 49 answers |
| Disown | 50 answers |
| collaborate | 50 answers |
| eradicate | 51 answers |
| Take Back | 51 answers |
| Expel | 52 answers |
| back down | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FORSWEAR (5)
The most effective way of putting her off her guard would have been to leave her alone, to forswear the privilege of conversation with her, to pass the days in other society.
They followed him, right to the sea they'll fare; Marsile they left, that would their faith forswear, For Christendom they've neither wish nor care.
There are times when it grips me so hard that I’m inclined to forswear the gods of my fathers! “Well, Greenmantle is the prophet of this great simplicity.
Women, bless their hearts! can never know what long comradeship means to men; it is something not in their lives—something that belongs only to that wild, undomesticated world which we forswear when we find our mates.
Did you—I forget—did you have a kick at the stern works of that melancholy puppy and humbug Daniel Deronda himself?—the Prince of prigs; the literary abomination of desolation in the way of manhood; a type which is enough to make a man forswear the love of women, if that is how it must be gained.
Quotes with FORSWEAR (3)
We are bodies of broken bones. I guess I’d always known but never fully considered that being broken is what makes us human. We all have our reasons. Sometimes we’re fractured by the choices we make; sometimes we’re shattered by things we would never have chosen. But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compas…
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis - only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy.(pg. 44, "The Unsettling of America")
We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1973–2013).