zweer
Meaning
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a purulent boil, skin injury containing pus, ulcer
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/zʋeːr/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch swēre, from Old Dutch swero (“boil, abcess”), from Proto-Germanic *swerô (“ulcer”), from *sweraną (“to hurt; fester”).
New
zweren
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- (transitive) to swear, pledge, declare under oath
- (intransitive) to make/take an oath
- (intransitive) to swear, to curse, notably blasphemously
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