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MARRY (married)

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Irregular inflected form: married  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does marry mean? 

MARRY (verb)
  The verb MARRY has 2 senses:

1. take in marriageplay

2. perform a marriage ceremonyplay

  Familiarity information: MARRY used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MARRY (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they marry  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it marries  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: married  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: married  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: marrying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Take in marriage

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

conjoin; espouse; get hitched with; get married; hook up with; marry; wed

Hypernyms (to "marry" is one way to...):

unify; unite (act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief)

Verb group:

marry; splice; tie; wed (perform a marriage ceremony)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "marry"):

inmarry (marry within one's own tribe or group)

mismarry (marry an unsuitable partner)

wive (marry a woman, take a wife)

wive (take (someone) as a wife)

intermarry (marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group)

remarry (marry, not for the first time)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

Sam and Sue marry
Sam cannot marry Sue

Derivation:

marriage (the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony)

married (a person who is married)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Perform a marriage ceremony

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

marry; splice; tie; wed

Context example:

The couple got spliced on Hawaii

Hypernyms (to "marry" is one way to...):

officiate (act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding)

Verb group:

conjoin; espouse; get hitched with; get married; hook up with; marry; wed (take in marriage)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "marry"):

solemnise; solemnize (perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

marriage (the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony)


 Context examples 


"I shall marry whom I please, Aunt March, and you can leave your money to anyone you like," she said, nodding her head with a resolute air.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You mustn't marry more than one person at a time, may you, Peggotty?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If I marry, I do want to marry a famous man!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I told you we shall be married in four weeks.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As it is, not one of them is married.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Arthur was saying that he felt since then as if they two had been really married and that she was his wife in the sight of God.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I am about to be married.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is a man of forty, married, with five children.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I suppose you know he wanted to marry Anne?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But, said Eleanor, after a short pause, would it be to promote his happiness, to enable him to marry such a girl?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)



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