espoused 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of espousednext
as in married

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espoused

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verb

past tense of espouse
1
as in matched
to give in marriage a couple eager to espouse their eldest daughter

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2
as in wedded
to take as a spouse heeded his father's advice to espouse someone with whom he had common interests

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3
as in borrowed
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

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for espoused
  1. married
  2. borrowed
  3. adopted
  4. conjugal
  5. marital
Adjective
  • Single filers with a MAGI of $95,000 or more and married couples filing jointly with a MAGI of $195,000 or more are ineligible.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Mandy Moore, who is married to Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, previously revealed that much of their Altadena house and Goldsmith’s home recording studio were destroyed in the fires.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of married
Verb
  • Three years later, Stack borrowed another $60 million from GE Capital, this time to buy out his investors.
    Jemima McEvoy, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The brothers learned as teenagers that their father had borrowed money through a federal program to drill for wells, and wound up $4 million in debt, including interest, when the wells failed, with the land pledged as collateral.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of borrowed
Verb
  • From the start, the duo adopted an iterative design process, relying on small, focused experiments to shape their platform.
    Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • With details being finalized and legislation being adopted, a lot has been happening.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of adopted
Adjective
  • The figures include Abigail Abbot Bailey, an eighteenth-century New Englander whose efforts to leave her abusive husband, Asa, were hindered not just by strictures against divorce but also by the prevailing attitudes toward conjugal desire.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • The female-nude painting hanging over her conjugal bed satirizes a freaky tendency that rocks her marital arrangement — an unsettling tour de force from Breillat.
    Armond White, National Review, 26 June 2024
Definition of conjugal
Adjective
  • The results are equal parts marital crisis, sins-of-the-father psychodrama and visceral body horror.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
  • And the Associated Press published a news story showing that Hegseth’s history of marital infidelity and insubordination toward a commanding officer violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which, as Defense Secretary, he would be called on to enforce.
    Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of marital
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