or “wife” being used as a verb too.
There is no such thing as someone being “wifed up”. Only trashy people use that phrase, but it is seeping into the lexicon of women in their 20s.
Shakespeare used "wive" as a verb in "Taming of the Shrew." Act 1, Scene 2:
And I have thrust myself into this maze,
Haply to wive and thrive as best I may: