Meaning of WIVE
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- [v] provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife
- [v] marry a woman, take a wife
- [v] take (someone) as a wife
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| | See Also: | | conjoin, espouse, furnish, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, provide, render, supply, wed | |
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\Wive\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wived}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wiving}.] [AS. w[=i]fian, gew[=i]fian. See {Wite}.]
To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. --Chaucer.
\Wive\, v. t.
1. To match to a wife; to provide with a wife. ``An I could
get me but a wife . . . I were manned, horsed, and
wived.'' --Shak.
2. To take for a wife; to marry.
I have wived his sister. --Sir W.
Scott.
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