to propose
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3.5
- verb
- /prəˈpoʊz/
:
pedir matrimonio
- After dating for three years, he finally proposed to his girlfriend during their vacation.
- propose marriage
Wait, people, Marky Sharkey is proposing to Nina Caliente.
- Wait, people, Marky Sharkey is proposing to Nina Caliente.
- Charlie Bronson used to propose to me every three or four months.
- After I proposed to her, she says yes.
- Is Zoella pregnant or is he going to propose?
- And then we we went to Guam and that's when he proposed.
- We've got, oh, about four or five months until I propose to her.
- I came back and proposed, you know, how did you know she was the one?
- And then once they proposed to her, she's like, the door is that way.
Examples
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Just after they became lovers, Frost proposed marriage and pressed Kay to divorce her husband.
Academic text (1996) -
I proposed to you when we were in our twenties 'cause I was so damn in love with you that I... I knew then that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you.
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Months later, the man proposed to the woman in that very same section.
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So why did you propose to her?
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Wait, did he just propose to me?
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It's not every day a man gets to propose marriage... ...to the woman he loves.
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Are you proposing to me?
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Head over heels in love, I proposed to her within the week.
Fiction book (1998) -
That's where my dad proposed to my mom.
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Scarcely recovered from the assault of grief and guilt, he proposed marriage to Kay.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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4.6
To ask someone to marry you
Antonyms
How Direct
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Propose comes from pro- 'forward' and pose 'to put', and in marriage it means to 'put forward' an offer of marriage, so to propose is to ask someone to marry you.