Definitions for pledge

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pledge pledge

Spelling: [plej]

IPA: /plɛdʒ/

Pledge is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in pledge (deeglp).

Definitions for pledge

noun

1. a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something:
2. something delivered as security for the payment of a debt or fulfillment of a promise, and subject to forfeiture on failure to pay or fulfill the promise.
3. the state of being given or held as security:
4. Law. the act of delivering goods, property, etc., to another for security. the resulting legal relationship.
5. something given or regarded as a security.
6. a person accepted for membership in a club, fraternity, or sorority, but not yet formally approved.
7. an assurance of support or goodwill conveyed by drinking a person's health; a toast.
8. Obsolete. a hostage. a person who becomes bail or surety for another.

Idioms

1. take the pledge, to make a solemn, formal vow to abstain from intoxicating drink.

verb (used with object)

1. to bind by or as if by a pledge:
2. to promise solemnly:
3. to give or deposit as a pledge; pawn.
4. to stake, as one's honor.
5. to secure by a pledge; give a pledge for.
6. to accept as a pledge for club, fraternity, or sorority membership.
7. to drink a health or toast to.

verb (used without object)

1. to make or give a pledge:
2. to drink a pledge; toast someone's health, success, etc.

Origin of pledge

1275-1325; Middle English plege Anglo-French early Medieval Latin plevium, plebium, derivative of plebīre to pledge Germanic; compare Old English plēon to risk, German pflegen to look after.

Examples for pledge

To pledge herself to him as wife was impossible; she could not do it; she would not.

Come, my daughter, shake hands with this gentleman, and pledge him your troth.

I pledge to conduct a full and fair investigation and to give the grand jury all of the information necessary to do its job.

To that effort I pledge all my strength and every power of my office.

Our pledge to these principles is constant, because we believe in their rightness.

The video is accompanied by a photograph of a young black girl wrapped tightly in Kevlar, and a pledge card asking people to vote.

Our pledge was not merely to do a patchwork job with secondhand materials.

Voters fill out their name, address, phone number and sign a pledge that they will “commit to vote.”

And with new leadership in Washington we will stand together and pledge to listen to the American people.

“It is our Islamic obligation to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State and give it our Islamic fealty,” he said.