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

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The brand also frequently teams up with designers for limited-edition drops; recently, this includes the Beni x Flamingo Estate collection, which marries Los Angeles style with Moroccan tradition.

— Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2026
At the 350-acre estate, head winemaker Maya Hood White marries scientific precision with an intuitive feel for the land, using cover crops and careful canopy management to foster biodiversity and balance.

— Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2026

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