I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
future wife/husband/son-in-law etc (= someone who will be your wife, husband, son-in-law etc )
house husband
jealous husband/wife/lover etc
late husband/wife
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Mrs. Moore’s late husband
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
late
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She's now left with little more than photographs to bring back memories of her late husband .
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Mrs Hancock kept the white mansion and some other property interests of her late husband .
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Suitum and her late husband bought their land in the early 1970s.
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Olympic gold medalist Ekaterina Gordeeva is writing a memoir about her life with Sergei Grinkov, her late husband and figure-skating partner.
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It never occurred to me that Karen might be grieving for her late husband .
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Marion Witherspoon had married her late husband when she was twenty or twenty-one.
■ VERB
leave
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After the trial she left her husband and became Jaggers' housekeeper.
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In these conversations, Foxwell said she counseled the younger woman to get a job and leave her husband .
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It was the third trip she had made that year, leaving husband , sons and job to visit her father.
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That was just before Pamela left her husband and got an apartment up in Westchester, near the college she taught in.
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It is understood that Mrs Say had left a note with a neighbour saying she was leaving her husband .
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Creusa, leaving her husband in the town with one of the priests, went on up to the sanctuary by herself.
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Tonight, she would leave her husband and the tall house in the Burrows.
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I can leave my husband on his own.
live
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She lived with her husband and little girl in the city of Worcester.
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That does not mean that she should submit to violence or even that she must live with her husband .
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But the courts will only agree that they're living apart if the husband and wife run totally different lives.
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In most societies women travel to live with their husbands , whereas men tend to remain close to their relatives.
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We go up several flights of stairs to the room where Rezia lives with her husband and son.
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But I can not live without my husband .
lose
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The Marchioness had lost her husband , but worse was to follow.
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Some people just die, and some lost their child, husband or wife.
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Yet a woman who had lost a husband or failed to get one at all, might find herself in genuine distress.
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Country lost and husband and children.
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She'd lost her husband and her only daughter and didn't want anything to happen to her only granddaughter.
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She had lost her husband and all those she had loved because of Ireland.
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But only the swiftest of action will save a woman who's already lost her husband from losing her home as well.
marry
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He thought she would marry him when her husband died.
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Marion Witherspoon had married her late husband when she was twenty or twenty-one.
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Chatman had a tumor removed 12 years ago, six years before she married her husband , Dennis.&038;.
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Women are working more across the board, but the biggest increase has come from women married to higher-earning husbands .
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In 1973 she married her present husband , Taufik Kiemas, a well-connected businessman who owns a string of gas stations.
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I sold papers until I was 17, then I married my husband .
meet
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She met husband John at Capenhurst when he was a wages and salaries officer at the plant.
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Madness, of course, but then I met my husband .
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Would you like to meet my husband ?
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She then went on to Yale Law School where she was on the board of the law review and met her husband .
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It was there she met her present husband , Ray Preis, an executive with the company space program.
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He had met her husband , Vos, a young clergyman, and seen their baby son.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
battered woman/wife/husband/baby etc
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It was not intended to suggest that these were battered wives.
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Moreover, battered women often wind up dropping the charges as reconciliation with the abuser.
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Now the ikons of female suffering are all around us; the image of the battered woman is high fashion.
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The church has already erred on this side in the counsel it has given battered women.
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The groups most adamant about denying help to battered women were the conservative fundamentalists and some orders of Catholicism.
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The person on call made us a cup of tea - battered wives' homes are the greatest!
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They took us to the police station and then to a battered women's house at about 2 a.m.
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We have often been tempted to abandon this task; then another battered woman would come into our lived.
common-law marriage/husband/wife
deserted wife/husband/child etc
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In practice, the treatment of widows and deserted wives varied considerably from region to region.
sb's estranged husband/wife
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gary's her second husband .
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How many husbands would stay at home and take care of the children while their wife goes out to work?
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I don't like Francesca's husband very much.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her big manly husband - at this moment she hated him.
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Her throat dried to think that she might have revealed things about her husband to another man.
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Mr Nicholls was, after all, a good husband for Charlotte.
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My husband was furious, so was 1.
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See, he boarded with this woman and her husband in Ambler, and the husband was kind of dopey.
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She lived with her husband and little girl in the city of Worcester.
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Valerie Hermreck brings a batch of warm-from-the-oven chocolate chip cookies to her husband and children.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Families have been husbanding their small reserves of food.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And he should husband his capital accordingly.