MEANING
To give an assurance or guarantee based on one’s knowledge, especially of someone’s reliability or of a fact.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- vouch for a person
- vouch for accuracy
On the page
She could vouch for his presence at supper, but not for where he went afterward.
No one would vouch for the accuracy of the copied map.
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Word forms
- Base
- vouch
- Past tense
- vouched
- Past participle
- vouched
- Present participle
- vouching
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- vouch
- Present continuous
- am/is/are vouching
- Present perfect
- have/has vouched
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been vouching
- Past
- vouched
- Past continuous
- was/were vouching
- Past perfect
- had vouched
- Past perfect continuous
- had been vouching
- Future
- will vouch
- Future continuous
- will be vouching
- Future perfect
- will have vouched
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been vouching
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: vouch; vouches; vouched; vouched; vouching Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: vouches.
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