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Meaning of take to wife | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To marry (a specific woman).

transitive

Examples

“Pondering other items, like the path to a Chemical Engineering Ph.D., are Burke Baker, who took to wife one Betty Kimble back there in the Dark Ages, the same month we graduated, at Berkeley; […]”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

take too far take turns take umbrage take under take under advisement take underwing