marry
IPA: mˈɛri
verb
- (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
- (intransitive) To enter into marriage with one another.
- (transitive) To take as husband or wife.
- (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
- (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.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of inanimate or abstract things) To join or connect. See also marry up.
- (transitive, figuratively) To unite; to join together into a close union.
- (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.
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Examples of "marry" in Sentences
- It is enough that “my lud” has a handle to his name, and Murray Hill shoddyocracy will wine and dine and toady him, and perhaps for his title marry him to some sweet, pure and good American girl, whose life hereafter will be a purgatory to herself and a mutual misery to both.
- It is enough that "my lud" has a handle to his name, and Murray Hill shoddyocracy will wine and dine and toady him, and perhaps for his title marry him to some sweet, pure and good American girl, whose life hereafter will be a purgatory to herself and a mutual misery to both.
- Also, Prince William should be getting married soon – so now there is no reason at all why he should marry a catholic, and now, with same-sex couples allowed to form civil partnerships, there is no reason why Prince William and Tony Blair, the world’s most eligible and famous Catholic, should not marry*.
- And when Jesus answered, that it is not lawful to put away a wife and to marry another, except on account of whoredom, they replied that nevertheless Moses commanded to give a bill of divorce and to put her away; and the disciples said, If the case of a man with his wife be so it is not expedient to marry_, "xix.
- But sharper than all these impressions rang the words of the worldly-wise Higbee: _ "She's hunting night and day for a rich husband; she tries for them as fast as they come; she'd rather marry a sub-treasury -- she'd marry me in a minute -- she'd marry_ YOU; _but if you were broke she'd have about as much use for you ...."
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