noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
future wife/husband/son-in-law etc (= someone who will be your wife, husband, son-in-law etc )
jealous husband/wife/lover etc
late husband/wife
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Mrs. Moore’s late husband
long-suffering wife
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his long-suffering wife
loving wife/family/parents etc
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the confidence he had gained from having a warm and loving family
Wife Swap
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
young
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I looked at his young wife , Dawn, with her four young children visiting Salisbury for the week-end.
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In addition, Feffer was a busy seducer, especially, it seemed, of young wives .
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Gail is very encouraged by a young wives group she started with a friend.
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He regained consciousness and crawled back to the house to be taken care of by his young wife .
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Oh yes - naturally - a young wife needed a home of her own.
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Unlike his much younger wife and his children, he was conservative, loyal to the ways of the old country.
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Fred watched his young wife go through her weekly ritual thinking how beautiful she looked.
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The Eldest Son's young wife was there.
■ VERB
kill
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Both families refuse to believe Ian would kill his wife and children.
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Grab your child as Blue Beard prepares to kill his wife and slump over when the brothers kill him.
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The prosecution had claimed that the furniture factory boss resolved to kill his second wife Helen when she walked out on him.
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Would he change his mind, Shaw asked, if some one raped and killed his wife , Kitty?
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Before driving off, they threatened to kill his wife and young daughter if he did not wait before raising the alarm.
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Magistrate accused of trying to kill his wife .
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No, I didn't kill my wife .
leave
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He has no plans to leave his wife .
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He left his wife , two sons and two daughters behind in Pyongyang.
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Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.
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Keaton solves that problem by having himself cloned, leaving his wife with more husbands than any woman bargained for.
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Almost all household chores and the raising of children is left up to the wife .
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He leaves his wife , Patricia Schartle Myrer.
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They told him repeatedly to leave his wife .
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He could leave his wife and marry her.
live
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Now he had a job in the dockyards at Emden where he lived with his wife .
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Uncle Harvey lived with his wife and daughter at the crest of one such hill.
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A married man living with his wife may also be able to claim part of the married couple's allowance.
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He lives with his wife and two small children near Amherst, Mass.
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But in Kemerovo, where he lives with his wife and three children, the shops are nearly empty.
love
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He loves his wife and daughters.
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Mr Wade loved his wife , anybody could see that.
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I can love my wife in the usual way and I can love Shinko in the unusual way!
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I love her as wives love their husbands, as friends who have taken each other for life.
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Was it possible to be unfaithful yet still love your wife ?
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He loved his wife and child.
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You love your wife , Douglas.
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It never taught the next thing, that the husband is to love his wife as his own body.
meet
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Morse looked at his watch: just after half-past six - and Downes would be meeting his wife at seven o'clock.
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DeVito met his future wife while performing onstage as a demented stable boy.
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Then about five years ago 1 met his wife at a concert.
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He took out a handkerchief and dried his face, hid behind it to prepare an expression to meet his wife .
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You met my wife a few years ago when she came around to let you know about the Neighborhood Watch program?
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.
husband and wife
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A husband and wife partnership ran a chemist's shop.
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Both husband and wife are undecided and somewhat ambivalent about having a child, or buying a house.
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If husband and wife are entertaining, then invite another couple.
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It's seems that their marriage is a lost cause in which possess the husband and wife not real affection for one another.
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Now we had to get the document that would officially make us husband and wife.
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The husband and wife, reaching the woods, separated in search of game.
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The distribution in the next generation depends on the correlation between the wealth of husbands and wives.
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The Plot A husband and wife longed for a child, and after many years the wife became pregnant.
leave a wife/children etc
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He leaves a wife and three children.
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Joel Gascoyne died in London 13 February 1705 leaving a wife, Elizabeth.
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Mr Fraser-Smith, who lived in Devon, leaves a wife and two children.
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Professor Brown, who was 47, leaves a wife Evelyn, also an Open University tutor and 3 children.
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The college also offers a creche for two to five-year-olds so that parents can leave children in safe hands.
live as man and wife
man and wife
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Mom burst into tears as the minister pronounced us man and wife.
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Terry and Meena aren't married but they live together as man and wife.
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As man and wife, we will be one flesh.
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Binyomin and Tsila had not only kissed but were on the verge of becoming man and wife in earnest.
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Both are considered totally private affairs, the secret of which is often not even shared between man and wife.
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But they were as man and wife.
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It was thought preferable for the schoolmaster and schoolmistress to be man and wife.
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One such dispute was settled by Marie with a verdict apparently asserting that true love can not exist between man and wife.
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The man and wife arrested with him have been bailed but probably face further questioning about suspected harbouring of an escaped prisoner.
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The victims were man and wife.
model wife/employee/student etc
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Afterwards she would be full of remorse and would return to playing the clean-living model student.
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First, she had to have earned good grades; second, she had to have been a model student.
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He is in other words a model student though not necessarily a good one.
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How is that model employee of yours?
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In all she was a model wife, and earned the esteem of everyone in the town.
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Two other girls were model students.
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Unlike Aung San and Sukarno he was a model student, excelling despite his marginal position.
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Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.
old wives' tale
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It's not true that if trees have a lot of fruit in the autumn it will be a cold winter - that's just an old wives' tale.
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And so the old wives' tale continues.
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I think it's an old wives' tale that make-up ruins the skin.
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Some dismiss these as myth in the sense of old wives' tales.
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That's only an old wives' tale.
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The old wives' tales that have answered the pleas of fathers for centuries are mostly ineffective.
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Whatever doctors, old wives' tales, and the Roman Catholic Church may say, human ovulation is invisible and unpredictable.
sb's estranged husband/wife
the world and his wife
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It seemed that all the world and his wife were in Madrid.
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Nick and Clem will have invited half the world and his wife, anyway.
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Now all the world and his wife seems to have heard of them!
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Only all the world and his wife, if I know Igor.
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The reason the world and his wife head for these shores is they know that their chances of deportation are virtually non-existent.
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This also facilitated close up shots to be taken without the world and his wife looking on.
trophy wife
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The resort was full of doctors and lawyers with their trophy wives.
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Unless it would be for wealthy men interested in acquiring as trophy wives lapsed radicals who look great in workout gear.
wife/child beater
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Kurt was a Bible-college student and a wife beater .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Have you met my wife , Doris?
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Have you met the Ambassador's wife ?
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He remarried after his first wife died of cancer.
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My wife 's career is very important to her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Brown looked at a photograph of his wife on his desk.
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His death came on Christmas Day, 1875, three months after his wife , Margaret, and baby died in childbirth.
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How is it you were able to get your wife out?
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Men who want their wives at home.
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One year he arrived with a young lady, then came back when she was his wife .