noun
Meaning 1
A perjured person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
perjure
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɜːd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Canada, General-American: /ˈpɝd͡ʒɚ/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)dʒə(ɹ)
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homophone: purger
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CMU ARPABET: P ER1 JH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: reflexive
Examples
- He perjured himself.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lie
History
Etymology
From Old French parjurer, from Latin periūrō.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: лъжесвидетелствам (lǎžesvidetelstvam) — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Catalan: perjurar — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Chinese Mandarin: 作伪证 — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Czech: křivopřísežnictví — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Danish: mened — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Dutch: meineed plegen — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Finnish: vannoa väärä vala — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- French: parjurer — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- German: einen Meineid schwören — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- German: eine Falschaussage machen — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- German: lügen — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Hungarian: hamisan tanúzik — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Latin: periūrō — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Latin: peierō — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Old English: forswerian — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Polish: krzywoprzysięgać — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Polish: krzywoprzysięgnąć — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Polish: krzywoprzysiąc — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Russian: лжесвидетельствовать (lžesvidetelʹstvovatʹ) — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Slovak: krivoprísažníctvo — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Spanish: perjurar — knowingly make a false statement of witness
- Swedish: begå mened — knowingly make a false statement of witness