marryverb
uk/ˈmær.i/us/ˈmer.i/marry verb (TWO PEOPLE)
B1 [ I or T ] to become the legally accepted husband or wife of someone in an official or religious ceremony:
Men tend to marry later than women.
Paul married Lucy four years ago.
They don't have any plans to marry at present.
[ T ] to perform the ceremony of marriage as a priest or official:
The royal couple were married by the Archbishop of Canterbury .
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- He's been single for so long now, I don't think he'll ever marry.
- He told me that he's going to ask Ruth to marry him.
- Greg and Jody met at college and married soon after they graduated.
- He finally plucked up courage to ask her to marry him.
- In many cultures, it is considered important for a woman to keep herself pure until she marries.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
- adulteress
- affinal
- as husband and wife idiom
- be an item idiom
- be shacked up idiom
- hear wedding bells idiom
- hitched
- honest
- husband
- intermarriage
- marriage counseling
- marriage equality
- marriage guidance
- marriageable
- marry in haste, repent at leisure idiom
- matrimonial
- shack up
- something
- together
- wedlock
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Weddings
marry verb (COMBINE)
to combine two different qualities:
a design which marries fun with function
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Connecting and combining
- abut
- adjoin
- aggregate
- allied
- amalgamate
- assemblage
- bind
- conjunction
- desegregate
- dovetail
- eclectic
- entwine
- fuse
- fusion
- linkage
- lump sb/sth together
- marriage
- meld
- merge
- mesh
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Idiom(s)
marry beneath you
marry in haste, repent at leisure
not be the marrying kind
Phrasal verb(s)
marry sb off
marry up (sth)