FORSWEARING Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

forswearing

verb

variants also foreswearing

present participle of forswear

as in renouncing

to solemnly or formally reject or go back on (as something formerly adhered to) the new government would have to forswear the use of torture if it wished to be granted full diplomatic recognition

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Recent Examples of forswearing Many women did so, forswearing British wares, spinning flax on town greens, and swapping handwritten patriotic verse while drinking herbal-tea substitutes. — Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025

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Eric Lai, a senior fellow with the Georgetown Center for Asian Law, said every actor in Hong Kong civil society who assumed that renouncing violence and working within the law would be fine has to revise that assumption.

— Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
That starts with renouncing the use of military intervention as a first resort and ending the practice of diplomacy by airstrike.

— MARC LYNCH, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of renouncing

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The Republican governor, who has aggressively used the death penalty in his final term, signed a letter Thursday withdrawing the death warrant for William Lee Thompson.

— David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Despite receiving several reports of John and Thompson being seen on security camera footage and John withdrawing money from an ATM, police were unable to locate them.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of withdrawing

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Vivo and Oppo phones have relied on various gimmicks, like smaller gimbals and pop-out lenses, to improve camera performance, though not to the extent of a physically retracting gimbal.

— Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026
The remote control has mixed reviews, with this seemingly retracting from its otherwise glowing reviews.

— Tantse Walter, Space.com, 26 June 2026

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