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espouseverb to give in marriagea couple eager to espouse their eldest daughter to take as a spouseheeded his father's advice to espouse someone with whom he had common interests to take for one's own use (something originated by another)after working among them for two years in the Peace Corps, she felt compelled to espouse the peasants' cause for social justice adopt, borrow, embrace, take on, take up domesticate, naturalizeappropriate, arrogate, take over, usurpabsorb, assimilate, incorporate, quotecherish, prize, treasurecultivate, follow, heed, honoruse, utilizebring up, foster, nurture, raise, rearaffect, assume, copy, imitate, pretend, put on, simulate pick up on abandon, forsake, give up, relinquish, surrenderabjure, abnegate, disownreject, renounce, repudiate, spurndiscard, jettison, junk, throw away, throw out adopt, embrace, espouse mean to take an opinion, policy, or practice as one's own.adopt implies accepting something created by another or foreign to one's nature.forced to adopt new policies embrace implies a ready or happy acceptance.embraced the customs of their new homeland espouse adds an implication of close attachment to a cause and a sharing of its fortunes.espoused the cause of women's rights in the 15th century |