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wive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb wive has 3 senses
- wive(v = verb.social) Array - take (someone) as a wife; Array is one way to conjoin, espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed
- wive(v = verb.social) Array - marry a woman, take a wife; Array is one way to conjoin, espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed
- wive(v = verb.possession) Array - provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife; Array is one way to furnish, provide, render, supply
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Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
wive, v. i. [AS. wīfian, gewīfian. See Wite.].
To marry, as a man; to take a wife. [1913 Webster]
"Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive."
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wive, v. t.
- To match to a wife; to provide with a wife. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To take for a wife; to marry. [1913 Webster]"I have wived his sister." [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
wive
Marriage
VB marry, wive, take to oneself a wife, be married, be spliced, go off, pair off, wed, espouse, get hitched, lead to the hymeneal altar, take 'for better for worse', give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon, marry, join, handfast, couple, tie the nuptial knot, give away, give away in marriage, seal, ally, affiance, betroth, publish the banns, bid the banns, be asked in church.
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