WEDS Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

weds

verb

present tense third-person singular of wed

as in marries

to give in marriage the king wished to wed his favorite daughter to the bravest knight in the realm

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as in mates

to perform the ceremony of marriage for the priest usually weds six to eight couples a month

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as in couples

to take a spouse she swore that she would never wed

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as in espouses

to take as a spouse a true romantic, he intends to wed her on Valentine's Day

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Recent Examples of weds The resulting book, a deliberately meandering account of her Steel City sojourn, weds memoir, travelogue, philosophical rumination and journalistic investigation. — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026 Their paths continue together into adulthood in Silicon Valley, when Cecily marries a tech industry magnate and Sam, a doctor, weds a famed social media founder. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026 Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta Located in Midtown, the Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta weds an idyllic location with luxurious accommodations. — Ellie Nan Storck, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2026 The film weds Jewish mysticism and slow-creeping horror with all the anxiety of new lesbian love. — Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025 The new display weds the photonic chip with a 5- by 5-millimeter liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) panel, which has a resolution of 1,920 by 1,080 pixels. — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2025

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marries

Verb

When season one ended, Issa’s boyfriend Paul Baker, played by Jack Innanen, marries another member of the group Anton, played by Owen Thiele, in order to stay in the country — Paul Baker, always first and last name, is Canadian much like Innanen.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026
Other than on the rare occasion an outsider marries in, the sect grows only through existing families.

— Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2026

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