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WIVE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "wive" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marry a woman, take a wife
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "wive" is one way to...):
conjoin; espouse; get hitched with; get married; hook up with; marry; wed (take in marriage)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Take (someone) as a wife
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "wive" is one way to...):
conjoin; espouse; get hitched with; get married; hook up with; marry; wed (take in marriage)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
