espouse

/ɪspˈaʊz/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

verb

1. choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
   “She followed the feminist movement”
2. take in marriage
3. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
   “She embraced Catholicism”

Synonyms for espouse

• adopt
• follow
• marry
• get married
• wed
• conjoin
• hook up with
• get hitched with
• embrace
• sweep up

Words that rhyme with espouse

• arouse
• browse
• carouse
• cows
• delouse
• menopause
• allows
• aus
• boughs
• bows
• brows
• chows
• clowes
• dhows
• endows
• eyebrows
• highbrows
• houghs
• houze
• howes
• howse
• howze
• krauze
• mows
• ploughs
• plows
• powwows
• prows
• prowse
• schmaus