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unwed

/wed/US // wɛd //UK // (wɛd) //

未婚,未婚的,未婚者,未婚生子

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v.有主动词 verb
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    wed·ded or wed, wed·ding.

    • : to marry in a formal ceremony.
    • : to unite in marriage or wedlock; marry.
    • : to bind by close or lasting ties; attach firmly: She wedded herself to the cause of the poor.
    • : to blend together or unite inseparably: a novel that weds style and content perfectly.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    wed·ded or wed, wed·ding.

    • : to contract marriage; marry.
    • : to become united or to blend: a building that will wed with the landscape.

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Examples

  • A workers group backed by Marxist students went on strike at a factory seeking better conditions and pay, exposing the hypocrisy of a so-called socialist state that in truth is wedded to private profit.

  • The covid-19 pandemic has revealed how even financial institutions that considered themselves digitally advanced are, in reality, still wedded to analog processes along the chain of processing.

  • Pelosi has expressed the desire to pass a bill before the election but made clear Thursday that she was not wedded to that timeline if she does not get what she wants.

  • Even those set to wed embraced the style on their special day.

  • Though there was allegedly an injury, charges were dropped due to lack of evidence, and she wed him a day after his arrest.

  • Similarly, Ray Rice wed his bride, Janay Palmer, one day after being indicted for assaulting her.

  • According to the announcement, van der Sloot will wed 24-year-old Leidy Carol Figueroa Uceda, an accountant who lives in Lima.

  • Same-sex couples were legally wed to his performance of “Same Love” at the Grammys.

  • But before permitting you to go I wish, not having been able to wed you myself, to betroth you to the one you have chosen.

  • I longed to hear her and to see her always; I would have died in rapture at her side, but I was never fain to wed her.

  • In this same year of 1816, she hoped in vain to wed a Troisville, but he was already married.

  • But she said she would wed no man, and told him to search the whole wide world for some one more beautiful.

  • Marius looks elsewhere for a wife—unless mademoiselle of her own free will should elect to wed him—a thing unlikely.