espouse (v.)

• accept
• adopt
• advocate
• affiliate
• answer
• approve
• assert
• back
• carry
• catch
• champion
• counter
• couple
• defend
• embrace
• intermarry
• maintain
• marry
• mate
• miscegenate
• pass
• ratify
• rebut
• refute
• remarry
• reply
• respond
• riposte
• support
• sustain
• uphold
• wed
• wive