wifed

1. 1
   verbcolloquial

   Simple past and past participle of wife. Slang, used of a man marrying or settling down with a woman.

   He wifed his longtime girlfriend last spring.

   He wifed her up after just six months of dating.

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2. 2
   adjectiverarein compounds

   Married, or having a certain number of wives.

   Now that he is a wifed man, he spends his weekends at home.

   “You smile and mock me,” she said, “as if I meant naughtily.” “Do you not?” She said with sudden gaiety, “Thou wifed man—I’ll unsmock thee.”

   1962, Henrietta Buckmaster [pseudonym; Henrietta Delancey Henkle], All the LivingHere, wifed means married, having a wife.

   Similarmarried, wedded

   Oppositeunmarried, single

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