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Formal Vowed Vow Noun, Verb Bre /Vaʊ/Name /Vaʊ Noun Promise Religious

Front vow
Back noun, verb BrE /vaʊ/NAmE /vaʊ/

noun



a formal and serious promise, especially a religious one, to do sthto make/take a vow to break/keep a vow to break your marriage vows Nuns take a vow of chastity.

verb


to make a formal and serious promise to do sth or a formal statement that is true~ to do sthShe vowed never to speak to him again.
~ (that)… He vowed (that) he had not hurt her.
~ sth They vowed eternal friendship.
+ speech ‘I'll be back,’ she vowed.


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