0 past simple and past participle of vow --
1 to make a determined decision or promise to do something: --
[ + to infinitive ] After the awful meals we had last Christmas, I vowed to do more of the cooking myself.
[ + (that) ] The guerrillas vowed (that) they would overthrow the government.
They all vowed, rather belatedly, that this would never happen again.
I vowed there and then never to allow myself to be placed in that situation again.
They vowed to cleanse the city of guerrillas.
Not unnaturally this created considerable dissatisfaction among growers, who then vowed that this was not a situation to which they would return.
He was so upset that he vowed that he would never go down a mine again.
While taking the battle to the heart of the formal political system, social movement leaders have vowed to continue their extra-systemic struggles should their efforts not achieve their goals.
Leipart vowed to move the unions out of their cool social moderation and to shake the state out of its passivity.
I vowed to state working hypotheses, test them against the data, and discard them as lack of "fit" dictated.
