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Verb: foreswear  for'swehr
  1. Do without or cease to hold or adhere to
    "foreswear the old ideas";
    - waive, relinquish, forgo, forego, dispense with
     
  2. Turn away from; give up
    "I am foreswearing women forever";
    - renounce, quit, relinquish

Derived forms: foresweared, foreswearing, foreswears

Type of: abandon, give up

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