bewife

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To marry (a woman). rare,transitive
    — She glowed into love, smiled, kissed him, fondled him like a mother. The male resents this mothering in his depth. It shields the home. The conquered woman turns back as a mother to draw him in, more and more into herself, to her warm quiescent hearth, to the unborn. The hunter rebels. It is then that brutality begins. He essays violence, cruelty, because he senses himself weak before the indrawing suction of the bewifed woman.
  2. To be or become a wife to (someone); to provide (someone) with a wife. rare,transitive
    — Þæt wolde ðyncan wundorlic ælcum men þe on Englalande wæs, gif ænig man ær þam sæde þæt hit swa gewurþan sceolde, for ðam þe he wæs ær to þam swyðe up ahafen swylce he weolde þæs cynges ⁊ ealles Englalandes, ⁊ his sunan wæron eorlas, ⁊ þæs cynges dyrlingas, ⁊ his dohtor þæm cynge beweddod ⁊ beæwnod.

词形变化

bewifes present,singular,third-person bewifing participle,present bewifed participle,past bewifed past

词汇关系

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词源

From be- + wife.
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