vowed
past simple and past participle ofvow
| 单词 | vowed |
| 释义 | vowed past simple and past participle ofvow vow verb[T] uk/vaʊ/us/vaʊ/C2 to make adetermineddecisionorpromiseto do something: [+ (that)]Theguerrillasvowed(that)they wouldoverthrowthegovernment. [+ to infinitive]After theawfulmealswe had lastChristmas, I vowedtodo more of thecookingmyself. to promise someone something
Making & breaking promises & commitments
Examplesofvowedvowed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It is no wonder that, as nationalist identities intensified in the city, ethnic identity remained important and ethnic groupsvowednot to disband. From theCambridge English Corpus He alsovowedto block a special session called by the legislature. From theCambridge English Corpus They came to seevowedcelibacy as a mark of an inward idolatry of false faith and trust in one's own deeds. From theCambridge English Corpus Among these, over 4,000 hadvowedto live in celibacy. From theCambridge English Corpus While the country mourned, medical scientistsvowedthat this would not happen again. From theCambridge English Corpus He himself hadvowedto quit drinking in 1985, after having lost part of his nose in a drunken brawl. From theCambridge English Corpus Especially during the last few years the reclusive vocation - ofvowedmen and women enclosed in cells - has attracted considerable academic interest. From theCambridge English Corpus Ivowedto state working hypotheses, test them against the data, and discard them as lack of "fit" dictated. From theCambridge English Corpus Leipartvowedto move the unions out of their cool social moderation and to shake the state out of its passivity. From theCambridge English Corpus While taking the battle to the heart of the formal political system, social movement leaders havevowedto continue their extra-systemic struggles should their efforts not achieve their goals. From theCambridge English Corpus He was so upset that hevowedthat he would never go down a mine again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Not unnaturally this created considerable dissatisfaction among growers, who thenvowedthat this was not a situation to which they would return. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Theyvowedto cleanse the city of guerrillas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Ivowedthere and then never to allow myself to be placed in that situation again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They allvowed, rather belatedly, that this would never happen again. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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