perjures

Meaning of perjures

verb, 3rd person present
  1. wilfully tell an untruth or make a misrepresentation under oath; commit perjury.
    she admitted that she had perjured herself

late 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’.

Information about perjures

Hyphenation of perjures

per-jures

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • perjures is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

perjures synonyms

Meaning (of a person or animal) be in or assume a horizontal or resting position on a supporting surface:

lie

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