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trouwen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • espouse verb To adopt a belief, cause or way of life and openly support it.
  • marry verb To become someone's husband or wife in a legal or religious ceremony.
  • wed verb To marry someone, or to conduct a marriage ceremony joining two people.

Senses

trouwen is used for these senses in English:

  • espouse (transitive) To marry.
  • marry (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. [from 14th c.]
  • marry (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place. [from 16th c.]

espouse — full definition

  1. verb To adopt a belief, cause or way of life and openly support it.
  2. verb To marry someone.

marry — full definition

  1. verb To become someone's husband or wife in a legal or religious ceremony.
  2. verb To combine or join two things closely together.
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