wive vs provide

wive and provide both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wive	No	No	Yes	No
provide	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, provide is a hypernym of wive; that is, provide is a word with a broader meaning than wive:

Other hypernyms of wive include furnish, offer, render, supply.

wive (verb)	provide (verb)
provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife	take measures in preparation for
marry a woman, take a wife	determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation
take (someone) as a wife	give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
	give something useful or necessary to
	supply means of subsistence; earn a living
	mount or put up
	make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain