marry

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
   • Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
   • I forfeited my inheritance and married outside my parents' faith.

   Synonyms:

   get married, wed

   Antonyms:

   divorce

2. (intransitive) To enter into marriage with one another.
   • Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.
3. (transitive) To take as husband or wife.
   • In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
   • First Xavier (Vernon Chatman): You're about as deep as a bowl of soup, and your tongue is as sharp as a soup spoon.
     Second Xavier (Vernon Chatman): Hey, say what you want about me, but lay off the soup.
     First Xavier: If you love soup so much, why don't you marry soup?
     Second Xavier: 'cause I'm...2008, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 10
4. (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
   • He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.
   • THe kyngdom̃ of hevẽ is lyke vnto a certayne kinge / which maryed his ſonne[…].1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xxij:[2], folio xxx, verso
5. (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.
   • A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.
   • His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.
6. (transitive) To acquire by marriage.
   • I wanted to marry wealth and power, and got both.

   Synonyms:

   marry into

7. (figuratively, intransitive) To join or connect. See also marry up.
   • There’s a big gap here. These two parts don’t marry properly.
   • I can’t connect it, because the plug doesn’t marry with the socket.
8. (figuratively, transitive) To unite; to join together into a close union.
   • The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
   • Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 3:14
9. To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
10. To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.

Interjection

1. (obsolete) A term of asseveration: indeed!, in truth!
   • You that be of the court, & eſpecially ye ſworn chaplains beware of a leſſon that a great man taught me at my firſt coming to the court he told me for a good will, he thoughte it wel. He ſayd vnto me. You muſt beware how ſo euer ye do that ye cõtrary not the king, let him haue his ſaiyngs, folow...1549 April 29 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe...
   • I have chequed him for it, and the young lion repents; marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...