PLEDGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pledged mean? 

• PLEDGED (adjective)
  The adjective PLEDGED has 1 sense:

1. bound by or as if by an oath

  Familiarity information: PLEDGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLEDGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bound by or as if by an oath

Synonyms:

pledged; sworn

Context example:

sworn enemies

Similar:

committed (bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude)

 Context examples 

But we are pledged to set the world free.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She has consented: she has pledged her word.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I had a right to her. She was pledged to me years ago.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So then I promised to wait for him to the end of time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Are the passes open to us, or does your master go back from his word pledged to me at Libourne no later than last Michaelmas?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He forgot that in the covenant entered into between him and the gods they were pledged to care for him and defend him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Hyde had a song upon his lips as he compounded the draught, and as he drank it, pledged the dead man.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Or you may have had good money coming in, but had pledged to help a family member financially, and it was leaving you feeling that life offered few areas of ease.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"You needn't tell me you've gone and pledged it with that Jew, Lipka. Because if you have—"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“For we must attribute this happy conclusion,” she added, “in a great measure to his kindness. We are persuaded that he has pledged himself to assist Mr. Wickham with money.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)