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vow Noun

— A vow is a promise. Often, a vow is a special promise that is made formally or in front of other people. I took a vow never to hurt anyone. They said their wedding vows, promising to love each other the rest of their lives. The monks took a vow of silence.

vow Verb

— If you vow, to do something, you make a promise to do it. We vowed never to betray each other.

vow

— verb make a vow; promise He vowed never to drink alcohol again — verb dedicate to a deity by a vow — noun a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner they took vows of poverty

Synonyms vow synonyms

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vow English » English

promise pledge oath swear take an oath guarantee assure swearer warrant undertake give one’s word resolution pray assurance assert affirm take oath solemn promise prayer give one’s word to do give an undertaking engagement determination consecrate command avouch aver agreement wish wedding vowed observance vouch vote underwrite threat testify swearing swear by swan solemn declaration share bed and board sell say positively say emphatically sacrifice sacrament resolve reassure protest prornise

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Conjugation vow conjugation

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vow · verb

Examples vow examples

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Simple sentences

With every broken vow, you bring our ideal closer to destruction.
If I wanted to stop speaking to all the people I despise, I would have to take a vow of silence.
I have made a vow never to get married.

Movie subtitles

Mind my vow, King Gunther, I shall not eat nor drink until my disgrace has been vindicated!
Our thanks is the vow to stand with you. in good days and bad. come what may.!
So it is our vow this evening. that each hour, on every day. to think only of Germany of the People and Reich. and of our German nation.!
As a sign of my vow, I place my hand upon the constitution of this land.
From that day on, I made a vow.. nottomixanothercocktail until Leslie was acquitted.
Let us take the solemn vow.
How has he kept his vow?
And that's how you keep your vow, Morgan?
Having made a vow to the Tenjin God Actually, I'm looking for a jujitsu instructor.
But to me he's like one of King Arthur's knights. that we used to read about when we were children. who took the vow of chivalry to battle against all evil-doers.
It's our vow.
For breaking each vow?
Yes, yes. Hearing all this, I vow you've come to the right man, Marcus Vinicius.
You were trembling as you knelt beside me when we made our vow to God.
From that day on, I made a vow.. nottomixanothercocktail until Leslie was acquitted. If these aren't up to my usual standards.
No, Schatzi, you kept that vow at least.
Pedro, may God give you strength in this. your hour of greatest need, to keep your vow.
Repeat that vow, Pedro.
Forget your vow and God will forget you.
Pedro, you kept your vow and God didn't desert you.
It's been ten years since I've made a vow to remain silent and not to show my face to anybody.
What are you standing there for? I've broken my knightly vow.
For breaking each vow? Who's sad and blue?
Hearing all this, I vow you've come to the right man, Marcus Vinicius.
But he can't say it, because that's part of his vow.
But only one vow to Diana.
I'm not interested in your vow! But someone else is, someone higher than you. and me.
I'll vow you know what this is.
And I know I didn't show it. You were trembling as you knelt beside me when we made our vow to God.
You must swear to me with a solemn vow. At sunrise i must put om the ring.. and return. to the terrible beast.
Apleasing cordial, princely Buckingham. is this thy vow unto my sickly heart.
Besides, I made a vow.
A vow? To only be interested in women I don't know.
I have a promiscuous nature. and, unlike these aristocrats, I will not take a marriage vow. which I know my nature will prevent me from keeping.
This I vow by the spirits of all my forefathers.
But the idiot says she's made some kind of vow.
I must make a vow.

News and current affairs

Extremist Palestinians vow to fight until Israel--viewed as a colonial imposition on the Islamic world--is destroyed.
Extremist Israelis vow to fight to hold the entire West Bank, pushing out the Palestinians if necessary.
It could also help the Bush Administration to come up with a more convincing procedure than the one presently envisaged for honoring the President's vow to bring the perpetrators of September 11 th to justice.
As a result, the vow of celibacy has become an unworkable anachronism.
Europe's leaders repeatedly vow to do everything necessary to save the euro.
Or was his presence a silent public vow, as he makes his decisions, to keep his mind fixed on matters of life and death, rather than on the next election?
The International Monetary Fund still awaits the doubling of its capital (another early vow), while its existing resources are heavily tied up in Europe and its governance reforms are stalled.
But, even without such a vow, he would find it difficult after nine years in office to combine a program of reform with a sense of what can be achieved given the mood of his party and of the country.
In the Middle East, despite Obama's vow to re-start the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, progress remained stymied by differences over the scope and content of an agreement and how to bring it about.
Then, in early September, the ECB's Council of Governors endorsed Draghi's vow, further calming markets.
That would be a relief to Republican Party leaders, who recently obtained Trump's vow (easily undone) not to mount an independent presidential campaign should he fail to win the party's nomination.
It is simply unfair to withhold the status of marriage from those who want to make this public vow.
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