PLEDGED Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in promised

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verb

past tense of pledge

as in committed

to obligate by prior agreement I would love to go to dinner with you, but I've pledged myself to a play with my parents that night

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reneged

as in pawned

to leave as a guarantee of repayment of a loan pledged their house against the loan

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as in vowed

to make a solemn declaration of intent I pledge that I will abide by all of the rules of this organization

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Adjective

All the properties—the new initiates and those who re-pledged, so to speak—were honored at an event at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris on June 2. — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026

Verb

Castillo pledged Thursday to continue her focus on animals and cosmetic genetic engineering. — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026 Meanwhile, authorities are awaiting tons of supplies and humanitarian aid from countries that have pledged their support, among them Peru, China, the United States and the United Arab Emirates. — ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026 In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Kennedy pledged to make individual vaccines available quickly. — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026 Saudi Arabia and Turkey — two nations that have been openly hostile toward one another for much of the last decade — pledged to go to war in each other’s defense. — Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2026 Clearly not wanting to run afoul of what could very well be Hollywood’s biggest studio distributor, the chief executives of AMC and Regal Cinemas have pledged their future fealty to WarnerMount. — Chris Lee, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026 Johnson pledged to make the payment — aimed at chipping away at the city’s towering unfunded pension liabilities — during the Chicago Investor Conference. — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026 The company has pledged to spend between $80 million and $100 million on cleanup efforts. — City News Service, Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026 The Kittrells also pledged those assets to obtain personal loans and used some of those assets to pay off millions of their personal debt. — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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With the first of Mamdani’s four promised rent freezes coming at us like a high-speed train, many of us won’t be around for the next three.

— Ann Korchak, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2026
That is twice the promised average increase in refunds.

— Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026

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Verb

Later that day, in a reply to a fan’s Reddit post, Hank vowed to shift his own use of AI.

— Matt Carlstrom, Vanity Fair, 14 Aug. 2026
In an August 14 report from RadarOnline, sources claimed that the Fight Club star has vowed to repair his relationships with his eldest child, Maddox, and eldest daughter Zahara.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of vowed

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The content remained identical, but attendance immediately became more engaged because employees could no longer operate on autopilot.

— Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Roberts and Ocasio-Cortez became engaged in 2022 in Puerto Rico, where the congresswoman's family has roots, according to Business Insider.

— Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026

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The customer used the card to purchase high-dollar gift cards and then entered a PIN into the system for cash, falsely indicating the card had deposited $4,302 into the system, police said.

— Dennis Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026
The federal indictment indicates that on or about the date the overpayment was deposited, Cherfilus-McCormick sent her brother a text message with a screenshot of the account’s $5 million balance.

— Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2026

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Cloobeck allegedly contacted Lavie’s attorney, swore at him and threatened him, his property and members of his family, according to the complaint.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Fatemeh Pasandideh and Atefeh Ramezanisadeh said in a statement Thursday that Immigration Minister Tony Burke swore them in the day before at a citizenship ceremony in their Australian home city of Brisbane.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026

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