Usually means: Adopt, support, or marry ideologically.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. espouse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. espouse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. espouse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. espouse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. espouse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Espouse, espouse: Wordnik
  7. espouse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. espouse: Wiktionary
  9. espouse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. espouse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. espouse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Espouse, espouse: Dictionary.com
  13. espouse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Espouse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. espouse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. espouse: Rhymezone
  17. Espouse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. espouse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. espouse: Free Dictionary
  20. espouse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. espouse: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. espouse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. espouse: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Espouse: Easton Bible

(Note: See espoused as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To marry.
verb:  (transitive, figurative, modern usage) To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).

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