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getting married

getting married is the present participle and gerund of get married.

Meaning of get married

Verb

get married (third-person singular simple present gets married, present participle getting married, simple past got married, past participle (UK) got married or (US) gotten married)

  1. (intransitive) To become married (to someone).
    • After a five-year engagement he finally decided to get married to Ash.
  2. (intransitive, reciprocal) To become married (to each other).
    • After a five-year engagement they finally decided to get married.

Questions about getting married

What is getting married the present participle and gerund of?
Getting married is the present participle and gerund of get married.

Words near getting married in the dictionary

  1. getting late
  2. getting life
  3. getting lost
  4. getting lucky
  5. getting Mario Karted
  6. getting married
  7. getting medieval
  8. getting misty
  9. getting moving
  10. getting nowhere fast
  11. getting off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: getting married (page history and authors); get married (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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