Definition of "wive" [wive]

To marry (a woman). (verb-transitive)
To provide a wife for. (verb-transitive)
To marry a woman. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "wive" in a sentence

"Rep. King spoke last night on the house floor claiming that his wive is in more danger living in DC than in Baghdad."
"Clearly, Swellfoot recognizes the reversals of power that his wife's return to public visibility forebode, and he articulates those reversals in terms of gendered maneuvers: the OED defines the verb "wive" as "to act as a wife"; thus, the King's exclamation that "Swellfoot is wived!" codes Iona's return as his own symbolic castration."
"Dollars spent, pennies earned: That "every dollar you spend" statement is more of an old wive's tale from say 1950."

Words like "wive"

conjoin espouse furnish get hitched with

get married hook up with marry provide

render supply wed wived

wives wiving