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espousesverbpresent tense third-person singular of espouse 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 adopts, borrows, embraces, takes on, takes up domesticates, naturalizesappropriates, arrogates, takes over, usurpsabsorbs, assimilates, incorporates, quotescherishes, prizes, treasurescultivates, follows, heeds, honorsuses, utilizesbrings up, fosters, nurtures, raises, rearsaffects, assumes, copies, imitates, pretends, puts on, simulates picks up on abandons, forsakes, gives up, relinquishes, surrendersabjures, abnegates, disownsrejects, renounces, repudiates, spurnsdiscards, jettisons, junks, throws away, throws out |