SWEAR IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swear in mean? 

• SWEAR IN (verb)
  The verb SWEAR IN has 1 sense:

1. administer on oath to

  Familiarity information: SWEAR IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWEAR IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Administer on oath to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The speaker of the House swore in the new President

Hypernyms (to "swear in" is one way to...):

inaugurate; kick off (commence officially)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Here was this irreproachable Englishman ready to swear in any court of law that the accused was in the house all the time.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)