marry

verb

1. 1

   To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.

   Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.

   I forfeited my inheritance and married outside my parents' faith.

   Evelyn, in his "Diary," under date 1641, says that at Haerlem "they showed us a cottage where, they told us, dwelt a woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and, being now a widow, was prohibited to marry in future; […] "

   But Esau, being now forty years of age, took a false step by marrying not only without his parents consent; but with two wives, daughters of the Hittites.

2. 2

   To enter into marriage with one another.

   Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.

3. 3

   To take as husband or wife.

   In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.

   First Xavier (Vernon Chatman): You're about as deep as a bowl of soup, and your tongue is as sharp as a soup spoon. Second Xavier (Vernon Chatman): Hey, say what you want about me, but lay off the soup. First Xavier: If you love soup so much, why don't you marry soup? Second Xavier: 'cause I'm already married. To justice. First Xavier: Yeah. Only a blind girl would marry you.

4. 4

   To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.

   He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.

   THe kyngdom̃ of hevẽ is lyke vnto a certayne kinge / which maryed his ſonne[…].

   The Queen has set the example of marrying her children very early in life; […]

5. 5

   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.

   His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.

   What ſhall the Curate controul me? Have I not the Preſentation? Tell him that I will not have my Play ſpoil'd; nay, that he ſhall marry the Couple himſelf—I ſay he ſhall.

   This is the Prieſt all ſhaven and ſhorn, that married the man all tattered and torn[.]

6. 6

   To acquire by marriage.

   I wanted to marry wealth and power, and got both.

7. 7

   figurativeTo join or connect. See also marry up.

   There’s a big gap here. These two parts don’t marry properly.

   I can’t connect it, because the plug doesn’t marry with the socket.

   The firebox married to Britannia's boiler is not, however, in the Doncaster tradition, notwithstanding that it is comparable in dimensions to that of the "V2."

   However, it now seems likely that means can be found to marry the W.R. and B.R. standard A.T.C. apparatus.

8. 8

   figurativeTo unite; to join together into a close union.

   The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.

   Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.

   For Faulkner, these years marry professional triumphs and personal disappointments: the Nobel Prize for Literature and an increasingly unlifting depression.

9. 9

   To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.

10. 10

    To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.

interjection

1. 1

   obsoleteA term of asseveration: indeed!, in truth!

   You that be of the court, & eſpecially ye ſworn chaplains beware of a leſſon that a great man taught me at my firſt coming to the court he told me for a good will, he thoughte it wel. He ſayd vnto me. You muſt beware how ſo euer ye do that ye cõtrary not the king, let him haue his ſaiyngs, folow him, go with him. Mary out vpon this counſel, ſhal I ſay, as he ſayes?

   I have chequed him for it, and the young lion repents; marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.

   I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking.

Forms

past tense

married

past participle

married

present participle

marrying

third person singular

marries