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REMARRY (remarried)

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

 Dictionary entry overview: What does remarry mean? 

REMARRY (verb)
  The verb REMARRY has 1 sense:

1. marry, not for the first timeplay

  Familiarity information: REMARRY used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REMARRY (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they remarry  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it remarries  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: remarried  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: remarried  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: remarrying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Marry, not for the first time

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

After her divorce, she remarried her high school sweetheart

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

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

Sentence frames:

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

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue remarry

Derivation:

remarriage (the act of marrying again)


 Context examples 


Indicates a person whose marriage has been legally dissolved and has not remarried.

(Divorced, NCI Thesaurus)



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