What does swore mean?
Swore means simple past of swear.
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/swɔː/ · verb
simple past of swear.
If that were all, for some have swore / As false as they, if th' did no more[…]
"[…]I have 'swore off' smoking. But you shall have your pipe (the old tobacco) or cigars among the books. It will be quite a delight."
“Were it not for the fancy French and Latin in it, I'd have swore it was the sort of thing I do not print as a rule, but being as how the order was from one of the members upstairs...”
Use swore when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Swore means simple past of swear.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
If that were all, for some have swore / As false as they, if th' did no more[…]
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