to promise

Examples

• All

• And I promise you, there will come a day where your legs will be as strong as any ox.

  Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)

• As is often the case, new technologies promise to solve these problems eventually.

  Academic text (1999)

• One way is to promise a quick win, right?

• But really, what does life promise from here on out?

• As your president, I promise you something will live.

• What did I promise you when we started this?

  Deadfall (2012)

• Before we're done... I promise you I'll explain everything.

  The Bling Ring (2013)

• Yet these emerging technologies also promise to create a platform for more comprehensive health monitoring.

  Academic text (2011)

• Clouds began to tower on the western horizon, promising a storm before the day was over.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The teacher promised to help her students improve their writing skills this semester.

Antonyms

D

to disappoint

492 1.0

Fail to do what someone hoped for

Idioms

P

to promise the moon

• Informal

1 6.8

Tell someone you will do something very big although you cannot do it

L

lick and a promise

• UK

9.9

A quick, not complete job done hastily and meant to be finished properly later

Phrasal Verbs

B

to break a promise

16 2.6

To fail to do what you said you would do

K

to keep a promise

5 2.5

Do what you say you will do for someone

Compounds

E

empty promise

10 3.8

A promise someone makes without any plan to keep it

B

breach of promise

• Archaic

1 9.5

Failing to keep a promise to marry someone that can lead to a court case

S

sugarcoated promise

6.6

Nice words that make you expect something that probably will not happen

How Promising

to promise

389 1.1

to indicate

834 2.7

to suggest

∞ 2.1

to hint

136 2.0

Surface Forms

Etymology