Espouse: alternatives and connections

To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.

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To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.

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To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.

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To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.

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To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

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To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

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To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and w…

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To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and w…

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To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an en…

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To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an en…

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A knot; a fastening.

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A knot; a fastening.

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A pledge; a pawn.

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A pledge; a pawn.

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To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

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To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.

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Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choic…

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Taken.

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To cause to be one; to make into a unit; to unite; to view as one.

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To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to…

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To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

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To become connected by marriage between their members; to give and take mutually in marriage; -- said of families, ranks, castes, etc.

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To marry again.

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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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To marry, as a man; to take a wife.

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of Borrow

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of Borrow

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To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place o…

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To join together; to unite.

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To fasten on, as armor.

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To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

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To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and w…

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A pledge; a pawn.

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