wed

(wĕd)

v. wed·ded, wed or wed·ded, wed·ding, weds

v.tr.

1. To take as a spouse; marry.

2. To perform the marriage ceremony for; join in matrimony.

3. To unite closely: a style that weds form and function.

4. To cause to adhere devotedly or stubbornly: He was wedded to the idea of building a new school.

v.intr.

To take a spouse; marry.

[Middle English wedden, from Old English weddian.]

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Translations

Weds

abbr of Wednesday → Mittw.

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"Before a maiden weds she chooses--an the laws of good King Harry be just ones," said Robin.

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Then he would wed her, he swore, to the best man in all the land.

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And therefore I have bidden these funeral friends, and bespoken the sexton's deepest knell, and am come, in my shroud, to wed you, as with a burial service, that we may join our hands at the door of the sepulchre, and enter it together."

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