swear off

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to promise firmly to stop doing or using something

   Prepositional verb · Inseparable

   swear off something / swear off doing something

   Usage: The thing or activity renounced follows off: swear off coffee; swear off gambling. Do not move that complement before off.

   After another sleepless night, he decided to swear off late-evening coffee.

   Sources and attribution

   OpenAI Codex authors; independent AI editorial review recorded in the corpus review archive. — Original project editorial material; cleared for The Missing Workbook

   • The Missing Workbook: original construction review

   After another sleepless night, he decided to swear off late-evening coffee.

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