transcription, транскрипция: [ vaʊ ]
( vows, vowing, vowed)
1.
If you vow to do something, you make a serious promise or decision that you will do it.
While many models vow to go back to college, few do...
I solemnly vowed that someday I would return to live in Europe...
‘I’ll kill him,’ she vowed...
They have vowed a quick and decisive response.
VERB : V to-inf , V that , V with quote , V n
2.
A vow is a serious promise or decision to do a particular thing.
I made a silent vow to be more careful in the future...
N-COUNT : oft N to-inf , N that
3.
Vows are a particular set of serious promises, such as the promises two people make when they are getting married.
He had broken his vow of poverty.
N-COUNT : usu pl , with supp