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marry
To join as spouses; unite in wedlock
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  1. To join as spouses; unite in wedlock
  2. To get married; take a spouse
  3. To enter into marriage; wed:
advocate
One who actively assists, defends, pleads, prosecutes, speaks, writes, or otherwise supports the cause of another. One who actively assists, defends, pleads, prosecutes, speaks, writes, or otherwise supports the cause of another. A lawyer. To speak, write, or otherwise support a cause by argument.
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  1. One who actively assists, defends, pleads, prosecutes, speaks, writes, or otherwise supports the cause of another. One who actively assists, defends, pleads, prosecutes, speaks, writes, or otherwise supports the cause of another. A lawyer. To speak, write, or otherwise support a cause by argument.
  2. To act as an advocate:
  3. To speak or write in support of; be in favor of
adopt
To take on or assume:
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  1. To take on or assume:
  2. To choose and bring into a certain relationship
  3. To vote to accept:
take up
(With on) To accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from.
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  1. (With on) To accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from.
  2. To occupy; to consume (space or time).
  3. To implement, to employ, to put into use.
uphold
To hold aloft; raise:
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  1. To hold aloft; raise:
  2. To give moral or spiritual support or encouragement to
  3. To decide in favor of; agree with and support against opposition; sustain
wed
To become married; take a husband or wife
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  1. To become married; take a husband or wife
  2. To perform the marriage ceremony for; join in matrimony.
  3. To marry
betroth
To promise in marriage
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  1. To promise in marriage
  2. To promise to give in marriage.
  3. (Obs.) To promise to marry
marry
To unite in a close, usually permanent way:
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  1. To unite in a close, usually permanent way:
  2. To get married; take a spouse
  3. To perform a marriage ceremony for:
mate
To join as a pair; couple
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  1. To join as a pair; couple
  2. To couple in marriage or sexual union
  3. To become joined in marriage or a romantic sexual relationship.
wed
To perform the marriage ceremony for; join in matrimony.
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  1. To perform the marriage ceremony for; join in matrimony.
  2. To become married; take a husband or wife
  3. To marry
hitch
To move jerkily; walk haltingly; limp; hobble
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  1. To move jerkily; walk haltingly; limp; hobble
  2. (Informal) To get (a ride) by hitchhiking:
  3. To become fastened or caught, as by becoming entangled or hooking on to something
adopt
To take on the legal responsibilities as parent of (a child that is not one's biological child).
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  1. To take on the legal responsibilities as parent of (a child that is not one's biological child).
  2. To choose and bring into a certain relationship
  3. To vote to accept:
embrace
(Law) To try illegally to influence or instruct (a jury)
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  1. (Law) To try illegally to influence or instruct (a jury)
  2. To accept; to undergo; to submit to.
  3. To join in an embrace.
take up
To occupy; to consume (space or time).
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  1. To occupy; to consume (space or time).
  2. To implement, to employ, to put into use.
  3. (With on) To accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from.
Find another word for espouse. In this page you can discover 22 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for espouse, like: marry, support, marry, advocate, adopt, take up, uphold, wed, betroth, adopt and marry.

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  • His position was assured, at least temporarily, in 617, when he decided to espouse the cause of the Northumbrian prince Edwin, then a fugitive at his court, and defeated zEthelfrith of Northumbria on the banks of the Idle, a tributary of the Trent, in Mercian territory.

  • The name and the cones are accounted for by a legend which represents that at this spot lived a sheikh who, finding his sister too beautiful to be married to anyone else, determined to espouse her himself.

  • The cool reception his endeavours, met with, both at the hands of the French ecclesiastics as well as in Rome, satisfied Bismarck " that the papal hierarchy lacked either the power or the good will to afford Germany assistance of sufficient value to make it worth while giving umbrage to both the German Protestants and the Italian national party, and risking a reaction of the latter upon the future relations between the two countries, which would be the inevitable result were Germany openly to espouse the papal cause in Rome."

  • Some religions that espouse reincarnation also believe that you could just as easily return as a plant, animal or even an insect.

  • Their dissatisfaction with the treaties signed in 1795 and 1804 caused them to espouse the British cause in the War of 1812, and in 1812 they captured Fort Dearborn on the present site of Chicago, and massacred many of the prisoners.

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