husband
/ˈhʌzbənd/ verb C2- To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
- To conserve.
- To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
He/she/it husbands · Past husbanded · Past participle husbanded · -ing form husbanding
Verb forms
- Base form
- husband
- He/she/it
- husbands
- Past
- husbanded
- Past participle
- husbanded
- -ing form
- husbanding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Can a husband ever carry about a secret all his life and a woman who loves him have no suspicion of it?
Bennet was forced to submit to a separation, which, as her husband by no means entered into her scheme of their all going to Newcastle, was likely to continue at least a twelvemonth.
Douglas declares that her husband had not left her more than a few minutes when she heard the shot.”
I own that I am lost in wonder to find myself promoted to an honor of which I feel myself unworthy—that of being the husband of Mercédès.”
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