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Wed vs Wend - What's the difference?

wed | wend |

As nouns the difference between wed and wend

is that wed is while wend is a member of a slavic people from the borders of germany and poland; a sorb; a kashub.

wed

English

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.

    Synonyms

    * marry

    Anagrams

    * English verbs with base form identical to past participle English reciprocal verbs ----

    wend

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To turn; change.
  • To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
    • We wended our weary way westward.
  • * Surrey
    • Great voyages to wend .
  • (obsolete) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
    • (Sir Walter Raleigh)
  • (obsolete) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

    • Usage notes

    The modern past tense of (m) is (m). Originally it was (m), similarly to pairs such as (m)/(m), (m)/(m), (m)/(m), (m)/(m), or (m)/(m). However, (m) was long ago co-opted as the past tense of (m) (replacing (etyl) (m)) and using it as the past tense of (m) is now considered archaic.

    Synonyms

    * to betake oneself

    Related terms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, UK, legal) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
    • (Burrill)

    References

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