MARRY

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

(verb) take in marriage

marry, wed, tie, splice

(verb) perform a marriage ceremony; “The minister married us on Saturday”; “We were wed the following week”; “The couple got spliced on Hawaii”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

marry (third-person singular simple present marries, present participle marrying, simple past and past participle married)

(intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. [from 14th c.]

(transitive, in passive) To be joined to (someone) as spouse according to law or custom. [from 14th c.]

(transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. [from 14th c.]

(transitive) To take as husband or wife. [from 15th c.]

(transitive, figuratively) To unite; to join together into a close union. [from 15th c.]

(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. [from 16th c.]

(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.

Synonyms

• dowrying

• get married

• wed

Antonyms

• divorce

Etymology 2

Interjection

marry!

(obsolete) indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.

Source: Wiktionary

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Mar"ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Married; p. pr. & vb. n. Marrying.] Etym: [OE. marien, F. marier, L. maritare, fr. maritus husband, fr. mas, maris, a male. See Male, and cf. Maritral.]

1. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place. Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself. Gay.

2. To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4. A woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and being now a widow, was prohibited to marry. Evelyn.

3. To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife. Mæcenas took the liberty to tell him [Augustus] that he must either marry his daughter [Julia] to Agrippa, or take away his life. Bacon.

4. To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.

Note: We say, a man is married to or marries a woman; or, a woman is married to or marries a man. Both of these uses are equally well authorized; but given in marriage is said only of the woman. They got him [the Duke of Monmouth] . . . to declare in writing, that the last king [Charles II.] told him he was never married to his mother. Bp. Lloyd.

5. Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you. Jer. iii. 14. To marry ropes. (Naut.) (a) To place two ropes along side of each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time. (b) To join two ropes end to end so that both will pass through a block. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Mar"ry, v. i.

Definition: To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. I will, therefore, that the younger women marry. 1 Tim. v. 14. Marrrying man, a man disposed to marry. [Colloq.]

Mar"ry, interj.

Definition: Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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