espouse

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of ESPOUSE

to give in marriage <a couple eager to espouse their eldest daughter>

Synonyms espouse, match, wed

Related Words commit, engage; affiance, betroth, pledge, promise

to take as a spouse <heeded his father's advice to espouse someone with whom he had common interests>

Synonyms espouse, wed

Related Words affiance, betroth, commit, engage, pledge, promise, propose; remarry

Near Antonyms separate (from)

Antonyms divorce

to take for one's own use (something originated by another) <after working among them for two years in the Peace Corps, she felt compelled to espouse the peasants' cause for social justice>

Synonyms borrow, embrace, espouse, take on, take up

Near Antonyms abandon, forsake, give up, relinquish, surrender; abjure, abnegate, disown; reject, renounce, repudiate, spurn; discard, jettison, junk, throw away, throw out

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