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wive
[wahyv]
verb (used without object)
to take a wife; marry.
verb (used with object)
to take as wife; marry.
to provide with a wife.
wive
/ ɲɪ /
verb
to marry (a woman)
(tr) to supply with a wife
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of wive1
Example Sentences
But the rice trick is quickly becoming an old wive's tale; it doesn't work as well as, say, silica gel.
The men of Padua, where Fred Graham’s Petruchio has “come to wive it wealthily,” sport brightly hued tights, exaggerated codpieces and lavishly plumed caps.
But when I came, alas! to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.
Ono wived by letting husbands go; she mothered her daughter by letting her go.
Do those of your world never wive it?”
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