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Definition of affiancing word

noun affiancing Present participle of affiance. 1

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Parts of speech for Affiancing

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affiancing popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for affiancing

noun affiancing

marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
plight — Archaic. pledge.
promise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
troth — faithfulness, fidelity, or loyalty: by my troth.
vow — a solemn promise, pledge, or personal commitment: marriage vows; a vow of secrecy.

verb affiancing

marry — to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
affiance — to bind (a person or oneself) in a promise of marriage; betroth
bind — If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.
commit — If someone commits a crime or a sin, they do something illegal or bad.
contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.

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Antonyms for affiancing

noun affiancing

break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
divorce — a divorced man.
separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.

verb affiancing

break off — If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
release — to lease again.
leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.

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