EGAVE

marry

About 17.48 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
  2. verb To enter into marriage with one another.
    Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.
  3. verb To take as husband or wife.
    In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
  4. verb To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
    He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.
  5. verb 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.
  6. verb To acquire by marriage.
    I wanted to marry wealth and power, and got both.
  7. verb To join or connect. See also marry up.
    There’s a big gap here. These two parts don’t marry properly.
  8. verb To unite; to join together into a close union.
    The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.

Similar words

espouse get married wed conjoin tie get hitched with hook up with matrimony wedlock marriage

Often followed by

her a him the me you and his again

Word family

married marries marrying

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