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wedded

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verb

variants also wed
past tense of wed
1
as in espoused
to give in marriage the king wished to wed his favorite daughter to the bravest knight in the realm

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2
as in mated
to perform the ceremony of marriage for the priest usually weds six to eight couples a month

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3
as in coupled
to take a spouse she swore that she would never wed

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4
as in proposed
to take as a spouse a true romantic, he intends to wed her on Valentine's Day

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Recent Examples of wedded
Verb
Her power of creation and transformation is not wedded to motherhood but her own intelligence and desires. Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 27 July 2026 In novels such as Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go, Yasunari Kawabata wedded stream-of-consciousness to classical forms of ritual and performance, modeling rapid Japanese westernization through stories that overlay the ancient and the modern. Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026 Don’t feel wedded to chocolate chips and walnuts if those aren’t your favorites. Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2026 The second is a return to Sangiovese in its purest form, with estates not already wedded to international varieties retreating in favour of a more Tuscan identity. Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 Hsueh said that gold prices became more firmly wedded to the outlook for Fed rate policy starting around the the middle of May, and less tied to the correlation to energy prices that had prevailed since the start of the Iran war. Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 22 June 2026 That’s not because the drug didn’t work or was found to be unsafe, Sikiric said, but because the people at GSK were wedded to their own projects. Sara Talpos — Undark, STAT, 1 June 2026 These are filmmakers who became wedded to the idea of going to hell and back. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 May 2026 Braun told these hatchlings that they were too wedded to script, and needed to learn how to let sound tell the story. Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wedded
Adjective
  • But with a huge chunk of their savings gone, the scam cast a shadow on the milestone for the couple, who’ve been married for 43 years.
    Emily Elconin for CNN, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Their first holiday season as a married couple was marked by health challenges and subsequent winters were spent miles apart.
    Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • That last might be especially true for female human beings who may be more encouraged to have derived an identity based on our role as marital partner or parent.
    Gloria Steinem, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026
  • In roughly 90% of that subset, according to the organization's founder, Fraidy Reiss, marital exemptions in state statutory-rape laws shielded the adult spouse from prosecution.
    Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026

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“Wedded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wedded. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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