0 past simple and past participle of pledge --
1 to make a serious or formal promise to give or do something: --
I've been pledged to secrecy.
[ + to infinitive ] Both sides have pledged to end the fighting.
So far, £50,000 has been pledged (= people have promised to pay this amount) in response to the appeal.
If you join the armed forces, you have to pledge allegiance to your country.
We are asking people to pledge their support for our campaign.
Revealingly, however, only half of these households found themselves able to redeem the goods they had pledged.
One, gruffly pledged to the unadumbrated vulgate and, quick in temper, stands in scorn of any bookishness.
Where the frankpledge system existed, all free and servile men were pledged to one another in small groups, usually of ten men, providing mutual surety.
When both sides pledged to support the political goals of some of their enemies' subject nationalities, others were endangered.
For a list of planned and pledged investment projects see their reports (1998).
An organization of people pledged to donate organs to one another functions in a very real sense to circumvent policy prohibiting socially directed donation.
The long-servers, most of the hands but especially spinners, were detailed and praised, and loyalty, including political loyalty, pledged to the son.
They mutually pledged to one another that they would not allow similar interventions in the event either was in a hopeless situation.
