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Wed Definition

wed

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Etymology

Old English weddian

Verb

wed (third-person singular simple present weds, present participle wedding, simple past and past participle wed or wedded)

  1. (transitive) To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
    The priest wed the couple.
  2. (transitive) To take as one's spouse.
    She wed her first love.
  3. (intransitive) To take a spouse.
  4. (figuratively) To join (more or less permanently)
    • 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 72:
      [...] the PPS paper proposed a political doctrine that wedded modernization theory to U.S. support for national security states [...].

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Verb

wed

  1. first-person singular present indicative of wedden.
  2. imperative of wedden.

 

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