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MARRY

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Irregular inflected form: married   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take in marriage

Synonyms:

conjoin; espouse; get hitched with; get married; hook up with; marry; wed

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "marry" is one way to...):

unify; unite (act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief)

Verb group:

marry; splice; tie; wed (perform a marriage ceremony)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "marry"):

inmarry (marry within one's own tribe or group)

mismarry (marry an unsuitable partner)

wive (marry a woman, take a wife)

wive (take (someone) as a wife)

intermarry (marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group)

remarry (marry, not for the first time)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

Sam and Sue marry

Sam cannot marry Sue

Derivation:

marriage (the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony)

married (a person who is married)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Perform a marriage ceremony

Example:

The couple got spliced on Hawaii

Synonyms:

marry; splice; tie; wed

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "marry" is one way to...):

officiate (act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding)

Verb group:

conjoin; espouse; get hitched with; get married; hook up with; marry; wed (take in marriage)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "marry"):

solemnise; solemnize (perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

marriage (the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Though my parents had been married so long, they had really seen very little of each other, and their affection was as warm and as fresh as if they were two newly-wedded lovers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you are married, you may now agree on a new goal to work on together.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A courtesy title used before the name of a woman without making a distinction between married and unmarried status.

(Ms, NCI Thesaurus)

She'd permit you to marry me, that's certain.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They had not been long married, and their eldest child was but just born.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My daughter Betty (who is now well married, and has children) was then at her needle-work.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There was once a man called Frederick: he had a wife whose name was Catherine, and they had not long been married.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then I made up my mind that instead of living alone I would marry, so that I might not become lonely.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He asked me if I would marry the girl myself and give him a share.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sarah was thirty-three, and Mary was twenty-nine when I married.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)