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espouse   (TTS Sound)

The verb espouse has 3 senses

• adopt, follow, espouse -- (choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals")


• marry, get married, wed, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse -- (take in marriage)


• espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up -- (take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith")