take the pledge en · VERB
Meanings
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(US, dated) To promise to abstain from alcohol.
Glad she was now that he had taken the pledge as a younger man; but for that nothing would have kept him from the drink during the bad times they had gone through.
1913, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger:
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, the, pledge.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| taking the pledge | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| takes the pledge | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| taken the pledge | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| took the pledge | Tense=Past | lexicographic |