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broken wedlock

broken wedlock is the past participle of break wedlock.

Meaning of break wedlock

Verb

break wedlock (third-person singular simple present breaks wedlock, present participle breaking wedlock, simple past broke wedlock, past participle broken wedlock)

  1. To commit adultery.

Questions about broken wedlock

What is broken wedlock the past participle of?
Broken wedlock is the past participle of break wedlock.

Words near broken wedlock in the dictionary

  1. broken vertical bar
  2. broken vertical bars
  3. broken vessel
  4. broken vessels
  5. broken water
  6. broken wedlock
  7. broken wind
  8. broken window
  9. broken window theory
  10. broken windows
  11. broken windows policing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: broken wedlock (page history and authors); break wedlock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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