Synonyms of the word vow


VOWASSURANCE - COMMIT - CONSECRATE - DEDICATE - DEVOTE - GIVE - PLEDGE - PLIGHT

vow

  • n. A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and…
  • n. A declaration or assertion.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To make a vow; to promise.
  • v. (transitive) To make a vow regarding (something).
  • v. To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act…

assurance

  • n. The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give…
  • n. The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
  • n. Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
  • n. Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity.
  • n. (obsolete) Betrothal; affiance.
  • n. Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Recently,…
  • n. (law) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. In England,…

commit

  • v. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; — used with to, unto.
  • v. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
  • v. (transitive) to have enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
  • v. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  • v. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
  • v. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally…
  • v. (computing) To make a set of changes permanent.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
  • n. (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository),…

consecrate

  • v. To declare something holy, or otherwise make it holy.
  • adj. Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

dedicate

  • v. (transitive) To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate.
  • v. (transitive) To set apart for a special use.
  • v. (transitive) To commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action.
  • v. (transitive) To address or inscribe (a literary work, for example) to another as a mark of respect or…
  • v. (transitive) To open (a building, for example) to public use.
  • v. (transitive) To show to the public for the first time.
  • adj. (obsolete) Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.

devote

  • v. To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter.
  • v. To consign over; to doom.
  • v. To execrate; to curse.
  • adj. (obsolete) Devoted; addicted; devout.

give

  • v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
  • v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
  • v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
  • v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
  • v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
  • v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
  • v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
  • v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
  • v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
  • v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
  • v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
  • v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
  • v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
  • v. To be going on, to be occurring.
  • n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

pledge

  • v. To make a solemn promise (to do something).
  • v. To deposit something as a security; to pawn.
  • v. (transitive) To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.
  • n. A solemn promise to do something.
  • n. Something given by a person who is borrowing money etc to the person he has borrowed it from, to be kept…
  • n. A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved.
  • n. A security to guarantee payment of a debt.
  • n. A drinking toast.
  • n. (with the) A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.

plight

  • n. A dire or unfortunate situation.
  • n. (now rare) A (neutral) condition or state.
  • n. (obsolete) Good health.
  • n. (now chiefly dialectal) Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
  • n. (now chiefly dialectal) An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
  • n. (now chiefly dialectal) Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
  • n. (now chiefly dialectal) One's office; duty; charge.
  • n. (archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To expose to risk; to pledge.
  • v. (transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
  • v. (reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
  • v. (obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
  • n. (obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

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