swear out

1. 1.

   deliver a warrant or summons to someone

   “He was processed by the sheriff”

   Synonymsserveprocess

   Broaderdeliver

   Narrowersubpoenawash

Questions about swear out

What does swear out mean?

swear out means "deliver a warrant or summons to someone".

What is another word for swear out?

Close synonyms include serve, process. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swear out a common word?

swear out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.