to wife
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8.8
- verb
- /waɪf/
:
tomar por esposa
- Everybody wanted to wife me, and I chose you.
Examples
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Someone out there would wife Emily and demonstrate his full commitment in a minute, but she's stuck on this guy.
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After several months of being together, he finally had the courage to wife her and propose on a romantic evening.
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I thought you were gonna wife me up.
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And no man that's trying to be serious with you is going to wife you up if you're constantly exposing yourself to the world... ask Kim Kardashian.
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And now that Wiz has wifed her all the way up, fools are taking to the internet to proclaim the glories of her as a girlfriend.
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Last week, Sitch wifed up Paula and made her his official girlfriend, something he's sworn against for six seasons of this godforsaken show.
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For some reason—and this absolutely astounds me, because I am not maternal, nor am I domestic—weird dudes love to try and wife me up.
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He decided to wife her after a few years of dating and knew she would make a wonderful partner.
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They were deeply in love, so he eagerly planned how to wife her during their next trip together.
Synonyms
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1.0
To become someone's husband or wife in a ceremony
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2.8
To marry someone in a ceremony
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9.2
To marry a woman
Idioms
Compounds
- Offensive
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6.5
An attractive younger wife of a rich older man seen mainly as a way to show wealth
- Literature
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9.9
A woman in the Bible who turned into a pillar of salt after looking back at Sodom
- Formal
A right that stops a spouse from being forced to tell private conversations with their spouse during marriage in court
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wife as a verb comes from the noun wife and means 'to take a woman as one's wife' or 'to marry a woman'. So using wife as a verb is simply turning the name for a married woman into the action of making someone your wife.