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marry (mar′ē)

transitive verb married -·ried, marrying -·ry·ing

    1. to join as spouses; unite in wedlock
    2. to join (a man) to a woman as her husband, or (a woman) to a man as his wife
  2. to take as spouse; take in marriage
  3. to join closely or intimately; unite

Etymology: ME marien < OFr marier < L maritare < maritus, a husband, married, prob. < IE base *meri, young wife, akin to *meryo, young man > Sans márya-, man, young man, suitor

intransitive verb

  1. to get married; take a spouse
  2. to enter into a close or intimate relationship; unite

Related Forms:

marry Idioms

marry off

to give in marriage they married off the last of their children
marry2 definition

marry (mar′ē)

interjection

Archaic used to express surprise, anger, etc., or, sometimes, merely to provide emphasis

Etymology: euphemistic respelling of (the Virgin) Mary

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marry Synonyms

marry

v.

  1. To take a spouse

    wed, espouse, enter the matrimonial state, contract matrimony, promise in marriage, pledge in marriage, mate, take a helpmate, lead to the altar, bestow one's hand upon, take the vows, plight one's troth, become one, tie the knot, double up, get hooked, get hitched.

    Antonyms divorce*, put away*, reject. *

  2. To join in wedlock

    unite, give, join in matrimony, pronounce man and wife, mate, pair up with, couple, partner; see also join 1.

    Antonyms divorce*, annul*, separate.


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marry Usage Examples

Object

  • princess: Jack: Um - yes, I might like to marry a princess some day.

Used with why or when

  • who: It got very confusing as to who wanted to marry who at the beginning.

Modifying Another Word

  • happily: I thought one day I'd be happily married.

Used with why or when

  • when: You ask, Why? It is because the LORD sees how you treated the wife you married when you were young.

Preposition: in

  • ceremony: The happy pair, who are visiting Edinburgh for the first time, were married in a 30-minute ceremony.

Preposition: with

  • daughter: Married with one daughter, she lives in Notting Hill Gate, London.

Preposition: since

  • 1960s: They have been married since the 1960s and are still happily married to each other.

Preposition: by

  • _machinery!_: My daughters wooed, engaged and married by _machinery!_ And you're only eighteen; do you hear me?
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marry quotes

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

-Amin (Dada), Idi

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.öYourmother will never seeyouagainif youdo not marry Mr Collins,and Iwill never seeyouagainif you do.

-Austen,Jane

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken inwhen they marry.Look where Iwill,Iseethat it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

-Austen,Jane

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