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To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.intransitive
- Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
- I forfeited my inheritance and married outside my parents' faith.
- 2
To enter into marriage with one another.intransitive
- Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.
- 3
To take as husband or wife.transitive
- In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
- 4
To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.transitive
- He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.
- 5
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.transitive
- A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.
- His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.
- 6
To acquire by marriage.transitive
- I wanted to marry wealth and power, and got both.
- 7
To join or connect. See also marry up.figurativelyintransitive
- 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
To unite; to join together into a close union.figurativelytransitive
- The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
- 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.
syn. bewed · conjoin · couple · espouse · handfast · hitch · join · marry · splice · spouse · wed
ant. divorce · separate