overswear verb2 •To swear excessively; to make too many oaths.[…] early modern Catholic theologians needed to curb the tendency of overswearing in order to institutionalize and regulate the oath more firmly as a sacrament of power. — 2013 •(no longer used) To swear over again, or in opposition to the oath sworn by another. formsoverswore · oversworn · overswearing · overswears