Verb

(combin)

To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.

* (John Dryden)

You with your foes combine , / And seem your own destruction to design.

* Sir (Walter Scott)

So sweet did harp and voice combine .

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To have two or more things or properties that function together.

Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.

To come together; to unite.

two substances that easily combine

(card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.

(obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.

* (William Shakespeare)

I am combined by a sacred vow.

Verb

To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.

The priest wed the couple.

* Milton

And Adam, wedded to another Eve, / Shall live with her.

To take as one's spouse.

She wed her first love.

To take a spouse.

(figuratively) To join (more or less permanently)

* Shakespeare

Thou art wedded to calamity.

* Tillotson

Men are wedded to their lusts.

* 2008 , Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns , page 72:

(figurative) To take to oneself and support; to espouse.

* Clarendon

They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.