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marries up

marries up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of marry up.

Meaning of marry up

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To join together.
  2. (intransitive) To tally or correspond; to match up.
  3. (intransitive) To marry someone of a higher social class.
    • But as Meghan and Marin know, whether you married up or tried to have some downtime, if you’re a woman trying to live her life, the world will find a way to make you pay.2022 August 27, Bidisha Mamata, “Tinder is 10 but after a dip in the dating app pool I’m staying resolutely single”, in The Observer

Questions about marries up

What is marries up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Marries up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of marry up.

Words near marries up in the dictionary

  1. marries out
  2. marries over the broomstick
  3. marries the gunner's daughter
  4. marries the ketchup
  5. marries the ketchups
  6. marries up
  7. marriest
  8. marrieth
  9. Marrin
  10. Marriner
  11. Marriners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marries up (page history and authors); marry up (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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