marry meaning
EN[ˈmæɹi] [ˈmæ.ɹi] [ˈmeɪɹi] [ˈmɛ(ə).ɹi] [-æri]US US
- VerbSGmarriesPRmarryingPT, PPmarried
- (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
- Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
- (transitive, in passive) To be joined to (someone) as spouse according to law or custom.
- She was not happily married.
- His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.
- (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
- (transitive) To take as husband or wife.
- In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
- (transitive, figuratively) To unite; to join together into a close union.
- The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
- (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
- A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.
- (nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
- (nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
- (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
- Interjection
- (obsolete) indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.
- (obsolete) indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- "I don't want my daughter marrying a dirty Prod," he said.
- I already had two boys who were putting gray in my hair, and I added two stepkids when I married the man who would become Jane’s father.
- I am not one of those who anatomise their own married happiness for the edification of the whole public, and make fame, if not money, out of their own wives' hearts." "
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.
- How did things end up with you and the bricklayer? — Great. We got married!
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of marry in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary