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Soheil1 Posted 6 years ago
Vocabulary

Swear against

Hi

What does it mean to say

My North Korean students would, in unison, swear against the imperialist America and its puppet South Korea as their chief enemies

?Thanks in advance

  

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soheil1 swear against ~ pledge opposition against ~ assert one's resistance toward ~ defiantly object to ~ curse; **** CJ

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  • soheil1 swear against ~ pledge opposition against ~ assert one's resistance toward ~ defiantly object to ~ curse; **** CJ
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soheil1swear against

~ pledge opposition against
~ assert one's resistance toward
~ defiantly object to
~ curse; ****

CJ

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"Swear against" strikes me as Elizabethan English. Nobody I know would ever put it that way.

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