娶 — meaning in English
qǔ
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English meaning
Senses
娶 is used for these senses in English:
- get married (intransitive) To become married (to someone).
- marry (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. [from 14th c.]
- wed (figurative, intransitive) To take to oneself and support; to espouse.
- wive (ambitransitive) To marry (a woman).
marry — full definition
- verb To become someone's husband or wife in a legal or religious ceremony.
- verb To combine or join two things closely together.
wed — full definition
- verb To marry someone, or to conduct a marriage ceremony joining two people.
- verb To commit permanently to something, as if bound to it by marriage.
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