perjure
verb /ˈpɜːdʒə(r)/
/ˈpɜːrdʒər/
(law)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they perjure | /ˈpɜːdʒə(r)/ /ˈpɜːrdʒər/ |
| he / she / it perjures | /ˈpɜːdʒəz/ /ˈpɜːrdʒərz/ |
| past simple perjured | /ˈpɜːdʒəd/ /ˈpɜːrdʒərd/ |
| past participle perjured | /ˈpɜːdʒəd/ /ˈpɜːrdʒərd/ |
| -ing form perjuring | /ˈpɜːdʒərɪŋ/ /ˈpɜːrdʒərɪŋ/ |
- perjure yourself to tell a lie in court after you have sworn to tell the truthTopics Crime and punishmentc2Word Originlate Middle English (as perjured in the sense ‘guilty of perjury’): from Old French parjurer, from Latin perjurare ‘swear falsely’, from per- ‘to ill effect’ + jurare ‘swear’.