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épouser — 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

épouser is used for these senses in English:

  • espouse (transitive) To marry.
  • espouse (transitive, figurative, modern usage) To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
  • 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.

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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