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to marry

to marry

656 1.6
To perform a ceremony to join two people as partners
  • verb
  • /ˈmɛri/
translation icon : casar (a)
  • They asked the priest to marry them in the church before their family and friends.

And the second one was with the pastor of the church that married me that I hardly knew.

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Examples

  • As the justice of the peace, she will marry them at the town hall.

  • Now, when I got my ID back, the first thing I did was marry my wife.

  • Who could you possibly find who would marry Raymond?

    The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

  • Why else do you think I'd marry Edgar?

    Wuthering Heights (1970)

  • You decided to settle down to marry your boyhood sweetheart from your hometown.

    Laughing Sinners (1931)

  • You won't have to pay back the money the state loaned you to get married on.

    Hitler's Children (1943)

  • Mirta and Telma, her best friends, tell her it is best to marry someone like herself.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Sir Anthony Eden went there to be married, attended by Sir Winston Churchill as his best man.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Soon after, she marries Dr. Juvenal Urbino and stays married to him for more than fifty years.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Free blacks could marry, inherit and bequeath property, buy and sell, sue and be sued.

    Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

to wed
vsto marry
  • Formal
24 2.8

To marry someone in a ceremony

performs the ceremony as the authorised person rather than being one of the spouses
to officiate
vsto marry
  • Formal
15 6.6

To lead a ceremony, such as a wedding, as a person with authority

performs specifically at wedding ceremonies rather than other official duties
to solemnize
vsto marry
  • Formal
1 8.2

To perform a legal wedding ceremony

performs the ceremony as the authorised official rather than stressing rites
to splice
vsto marry
  • Archaic
1 7.9

Get married in a ceremony

performs the ceremony in an official formal role rather than using casual language

Phrasal Verbs

to marry off
14 5.1

To arrange for someone, often by their family, to have a husband or wife

Surface Forms

marry infinitive
married past
married past participle
marrying present participle
marries third person singular

Etymology

Marry comes from the Latin word maritus, which means 'husband', and it is the root of marriage and marital. It once meant 'to make someone a husband or wife', which is why an official who 'marries' a couple performs the ceremony that joins them as husband and wife.