pledged

«pledged» in Mova's school dictionary: promised firmly or given as security for a debt — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (past tense and past participle of pledge: pledge, pledges, pledged, pledging)

meaning for a pupil

Pledged means promised firmly or given as security for a debt. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories people who have given their word have pledged their faith; a poor man may have pledged his cottage to a neighbour as a debt

examples

• They pledged their faith that they would not harm her. tree →
• He pledged his cottage to a neighbour. tree →
• We pledged our help to the school. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pledged» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.