wed

动词 v.
中文释义
发音 wĕdʹ

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony. transitive
    — The priest wed the couple.
  2. To take as one's spouse. transitive
    — She wed her first love.
  3. To take a spouse. intransitive
  4. To take each other as a spouse. reciprocal
    — They will wed in the summer.
  5. To join or commit to, more or less permanently, as if in marriage. figuratively,transitive
    — I'm not wedded to this proposal; suggest an alternative.
  6. To take to oneself and support; to espouse. figuratively,intransitive
    — They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.
  7. To wager, stake, bet, place a bet, make a wager. Northern-England,Scotland
    — I'd wed my head on that.

词形变化

weds present,singular,third-person wedding participle,present wed participle,past wed past wedded participle,past wedded past

词汇关系

近义词
marry
衍生词
soon-to-wed

词源

From Middle English wedden, weddien, from Old English weddian (“to pledge; wed”), from Proto-West Germanic *waddjōn, from Proto-Germanic *wadjōną (“to pledge”), from *wadją (“pledge”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to pledge”).
Cognate with Scots wed, wod, wad (“to wed”), Saterland Frisian wädje (“to bet, wager”), West Frisian wedzje (“to bet, wager”), Low German and Dutch wedden (“to bet”), German wetten (“to bet”), Danish vædde (“to bet”), Swedish vädja (“to appeal”), Icelandic veðja (“to bet”); more distantly, to Sanskrit वधू (vadhū́, “bride”). Related also to gage, engage, and wage.
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