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What is the verb for perjury?

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perjure
  1. (reflexive) To knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court.
  2. (transitive) 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.
  3. (transitive) To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “During his testimony, the defense attorney urged the witness not to perjure himself by providing false information to the court.”
perjures
perjureth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of perjure
perjurest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of perjure
perjured
  1. simple past tense and past participle of perjure
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We're assuming you're not going to have perjured yourself, Richard, so we'll expect to hear your resignation landing on a desk soon, shall we?”
      “Three judges found that the detectives repeatedly lied under oath and the court found that they had perjured themselves.”
      “It really means something terrible, painful for them to be perjured, to be forsworn, or to see someone they admire fail to honor an oath.”
perjuring
  1. present participle of perjure
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He was ultimately tried for perjuring himself and also forging these documents that she supposedly signed, these release forms.”
      “Now, you get into court, you're confronted with cops perjuring themselves and jailhouse snitches saying you confessed all to them in your cell.”
      “To get a call at one's workplace with an accusation that I had done something that would amount to perjuring myself is important.”
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