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to remarry

to remarry

79 2.9
To marry again after a previous marriage ends, for example after divorce or death
  • verb
  • /riˈmɛri/
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  • Men, also, would have wished to remarry, if only to provide a mother for their children.
  • divorced and remarried
  • permission to remarry
  • choose not to remarry

And you know, I've seen people that are remarried when they're fifty.

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Examples

  • Has Dad ever been close to getting remarried?

  • For his part, Richard remarried quickly.

  • And then he said, and you can tell my wife to remarry and try to be happy.

  • If he lives, then your mother will never remarry.

  • That means you cannot legally remarry.

  • But my father remarried within a year.

  • I would guess that by now she is remarried with 1.7 children.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • My dad got remarried and had two more kids who are my half siblings.

  • When he passed, my mother remarried, also a Navy man, George Phillips.

  • After my father passed away, my mother decided to remarry two years later.

How Reconciled

to remarry
79 2.9
to take back
115 3.9
to reconcile
38 5.1
readmission
5 4.4

Surface Forms

remarry infinitive
remarrying present participle
remarries third person singular
remarried past
remarried past participle

Morphology

remarry = marry (transparent) = re + marry

This is a standard and highly guessable use of the prefix 're-' meaning 'again' added to 'marry'.

Etymology

Remarry is built from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and the verb marry meaning to join in marriage. So, remarry simply means to marry once more after a previous marriage has ended.