WEDS Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

weds

verb

Definition of weds next

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 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for weds

marries

Verb

Dimon’s warnings have been growing in alarm on geopolitics since the outbreak of the Ukraine war in 2022, and on dire economic threats since 2024, and this year’s edition somehow marries both of them.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
But a new generation of technology marries computer analysis with cameras or the same electromagnetic fields as metal detectors to detect knives and guns.

— Jeff Amy, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026