swear off sth
— phrasal verb with swear uk/sweər/us/swer/verb swore, sworn
to make a decision to stop doing, using, or being involved with something harmful, such as drugs or alcohol, or something that is not good or helpful:
After years of addiction, he swore off drugs completely.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Abstaining and refraining
- abstain
- abstemious
- abstention
- abstinence
- back off
- fast
- forborne
- give
- give (sth) up
- give up sth
- hors de combat
- keep
- keep (sb/sth) out of sth
- refrain
- step
- step back
- stop
- stop short of sth idiom
- touch
- wouldn't touch sth with a barge pole idiom
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