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marrying up

marrying up is the present participle and gerund 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 marrying up

What is marrying up the present participle and gerund of?
Marrying up is the present participle and gerund of marry up.

Words near marrying up in the dictionary

  1. marrying out
  2. marrying over the broomstick
  3. marrying the gunner's daughter
  4. marrying the ketchup
  5. marrying the ketchups
  6. marrying up
  7. marryings
  8. mars
  9. Mars Bar parties
  10. Mars Bar party
  11. Mars brown

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marrying 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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