take to wife

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take to wife

verb takes to wife · taking to wife · took to wife · taken to wife

transitive To marry (a specific woman). Pondering other items, like the path to a Chemical Engineering Ph.D., are Burke Baker, who took to wife one Betty Kimble back there in the Dark Ages, the same month we graduated, at Berkeley; […]
Similar: bewife, wife, wive

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@misc{take_to_wife_2026,
  title = {take to wife},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/take%20to%20wife},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}