WED Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

wed

verb

ˈwed

Definition of wed next

as in to marry

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 to mate

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

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as in to tie the knot

to take a spouse she swore that she would never wed

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as in to espouse

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

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Recent Examples of wed 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 LaNasa has since remarried, wedding Melrose Place star Grant Show in 2012. —

Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 16 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 Here, Michelle Edgemont, sales director at national wedding florist Poppy Flowers, explains the most exciting shifts in wedding floral trends, as well as a few that may have reached their peak. —

Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 28 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for wed

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wed

marry

Verb

In the June 23 Section A, the obituary for Greenspan said that he was married briefly to abstract artist Joan Mitchell.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Williams and the Reddit founder married in New Orleans in 2017, shortly after welcoming their first daughter, Alexis Olympia.

— Hannah Malach, InStyle, 2 July 2026