wedded also wed; wedding
1
: to take for wife or husband by a formal ceremony : marry
2
: to join in marriage
3
: to unite as if by marriage: such as
a
: to place in close or intimate association
films that made me conscious of the power of wedding image to music—
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b
: to link by commitment or custom
was wed to the old ways
: to enter into matrimony
wedder
noun
Examples of wed in a Sentence
They will wed in the fall.
The actress wed her fourth husband last year.
The novel weds tragedy and comedy.
His new writing job wedded his love of words and his eye for fashion.
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Camus’ slim novel is wedded to Meursault’s point-of-view and he is framed as a man ultimately condemned by his failure to appropriately perform grief, with the wider social implications of his character left to the reader to unpack.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
Kai Cenat speaks onstage during Fanatics Fest at the Javits Center in New York on June 21, and Kim Kardashian at Hotel Gritti in Venice, Italy, ahead of the Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez wedding on June 26.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
For better or worse, the Giants are wedded to their position player core of Chapman, Rafael Devers, Willy Adames and Jung Hoo Lee.
—Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
The new display weds the photonic chip with a 5- by 5-millimeter liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) panel, which has a resolution of 1,920 by 1,080 pixels.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2025
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Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
Kai Cenat speaks onstage during Fanatics Fest at the Javits Center in New York on June 21, and Kim Kardashian at Hotel Gritti in Venice, Italy, ahead of the Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez wedding on June 26.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
For better or worse, the Giants are wedded to their position player core of Chapman, Rafael Devers, Willy Adames and Jung Hoo Lee.
—Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
The new display weds the photonic chip with a 5- by 5-millimeter liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) panel, which has a resolution of 1,920 by 1,080 pixels.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Wed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wed. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.
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