Espouse

//ɪˈspaʊs//

Synonyms for "espouse" (82 found)

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Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

7 entries

Synonyms

2 entries

Related terms

3 entries

derived

2 entries

manner of

1 entries

related to

6 entries

similar

8 entries

Translations

52 translations across 13 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • женя се verb (to marry)
  • поддържам verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)

Czech

4 entries
  • brát za své verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)
  • oženit se verb (to marry)
  • přijmout verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)
  • přijímat verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)

Dutch

4 entries
  • aannemen verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)
  • in het huwelijk treden met verb (to marry)
  • ondersteunen verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)
  • tot man nemen verb (to marry)

Esperanto

4 entries
  • adopti verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)
  • apogi verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)
  • geedziĝi je verb (to marry)
  • subteni verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)

Finnish

2 entries
  • kannattaa verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)
  • omaksua verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)

French

3 entries
  • adopter verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)
  • épouser verb (to marry)
  • épouser verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)

German

4 entries
  • Partei ergreifen für verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)
  • die Ehe eingehen mit verb (to marry)
  • ehelichen verb (to marry)
  • eintreten für verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)

Greek

2 entries
  • ασπάζομαι verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)
  • ενστερνίζομαι verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)

Polish

3 entries
  • ożenić się verb (to marry)
  • poślubić verb (to marry)
  • wyjść za mąż verb (to marry)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • apoiar verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)
  • desposar verb (to marry)

Russian

4 entries
  • вступа́ть в бра́к verb (to marry)
  • жени́ться verb (to marry)
  • отдава́ться verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)
  • подде́рживать verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)

Spanish

4 entries
  • desposar verb (to marry)
  • pregonar verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)
  • promulgar verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)
  • propugnar verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)

Swedish

1 entries
  • anamma verb (accept, support, take as one’s own)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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Libertarians espouse free markets and limited government.

Source: tatoeba (1166880)

Eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation.

Source: tatoeba (3297852)

I am convinced that Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, and others can embrace each other in a common effort to alleviate human suffering and to espouse peace.

Source: tatoeba (5797078)

More than once in history have people revolted against the inequalities of life and refused to submit to the restraints of laws and creeds. They have often gone through a period of communism and red terror in the hope of realizing ultimately the Perfect State. Their leaders, undoubtedly sincere at first, espouse the utopian dream, declaring themselves the exponents of its ideals, the promised messengers of its blessings. But with the material for revolt ready at hand, and unable to resist the seductions of nascent power, they soon undergo that transformation which history identifies, often not unjustly, with demagogy, if they fail, or with autocracy, if they succeed. In either case, by utilizing the elements of negation in Society, they become apostles of violence, proclaiming the theory of "creative destruction." But instead of creating a utopia on the ruins of their making, they only succeed in setting up, as history shows, another government, which, no matter how just and sound its foundations are in theory, soon becomes in practice more despotic and corrupt.

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