accouple

From Old French acopler, French accoupler. See couple. Equivalent to ad- +‎ couple.

• IPA^(key): /əˈkʌpəl/

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accouple (third-person singular simple present accouples, present participle accoupling, simple past and past participle accoupled)

1. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To join; to couple.
   • 1548, Edward Hall, Hall's Chronicle:

     The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen.

• affix, attach, put together, unite; see also Thesaurus:join

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• Homophones: accouplent, accouples

accouple

1. inflection of accoupler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative