marry
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- enPR: mă'rē, IPA: /ˈmæ.ɹi/, SAMPA: /"m{ri/
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- Rhymes: -æri
- Homophones: Mary, merry (in some dialects)
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to marry (third-person singular simple present marries, present participle marrying, simple past and past participle married)
- (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.
- (intransitive) To be joined together as spouses according to law or custom.
- Jones and Smith will marry in June.
- (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses, ostensibly for life; to constitute a marital union according to the laws or customs of the place.
- A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.
- (transitive) To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife or husband.
- The king is keen to marry his daughters to influential princes.
- (transitive) To take for husband or wife.
- In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
- (transitive) Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.
- The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
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to take a husband or wife
to be joined in marriage
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to unite in wedlock
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to give away as wife or husband
to take for husband or wife
figuratively: to combine
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[edit] Etymology 2
Said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.
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marry!
- archaic, Indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.
- William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part ii, Act 1, Scene 2,
- I have chequed him for it, and the young lion repents; marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.
- William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part ii, Act 1, Scene 2,
