take the pledge

English

Verb

take the pledge (third-person singular simple present takes the pledge, present participle taking the pledge, simple past took the pledge, past participle taken the pledge)

  1. (US, dated) To promise to abstain from alcohol.
    • 1913, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger:
      Glad she was now that he had taken the pledge as a younger man; but for that nothing would have kept him from the drink during the bad times they had gone through.
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