Dictionary › P › perjure
perjure
2 syllablesYour browser doesn’t have built-in voices. Try Chrome, Edge or Safari.
Quick answer
As a verb, perjure means knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court.
Meanings of perjure
5 meaningsverb
To knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court.
“He perjured himself.”
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.
To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.
Knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury
noun
obsoleteA perjured person.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Words that rhyme with perjure
mergerdemerger
For word games
p3
e1
r1
j8
u1
r1
e1
Scrabble & Words With Friends: valid word16 points before bonuses.7 letters.
Unscramble these letters