marrying

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.

   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.
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.
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.
6. (transitive) To acquire by marriage.
   • I wanted to marry wealth and power, and got both.

   Synonyms:

   marry into

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