wed
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- transitive verb To take as a spouse; marry.
- transitive verb To perform the marriage ceremony for; join in matrimony.
- transitive verb To unite closely: a style that weds form and function.
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- His friends urged him to wed, and in 1753 he married Mlle. Basile-Genevieve-Susanne d'Aine, daughter of âMaitre Marius-Jean-Baptiste Nicolas d'Aine, conseiller au Roi en son grand conseil, associe externe de l'Acad. des sciences et belles letters de Prusse.â — Baron d'Holbach
- Between the bride-prices he got for the ones that wanted to wed, and the officer's price he got for the ones that went into the armed services, Gel'vadera was a rich man. — Werehunter
- That was a state that had no parallel in the Sunlord's hierarchy; although Sun-priests were not encouraged to wed, they were not denied that state either. — Storm Breaking
- At one time when those of the nobility were to wed, there had been much blood shed in sacrifices. — The Eternal Mercenary
- He is two years older than my little Wilhelmina: why should not they wed, and the two chief Protestant Houses, and Nations, thereby be united? " — History of Friedrich II of Prussia
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- Middle English wedden, from Old English weddian.
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