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mar⋅ry

1  [mar-ee] verb, -ried, -ry⋅ing.
Use Marry in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to take as a husband or wife; take in marriage: Susan married Ed.
2. to perform the marriage ceremonies for (two people who wish to be husband and wife); join in wedlock: The minister married Susan and Ed.
3. to give in marriage; arrange the marriage of (often fol. by off): Her father wants to marry her to his friend's son. They want to marry off all their children before selling their big home.
4. to unite intimately: Common economic interests marry the two countries.
5. to take as an intimate life partner by a formal exchange of promises in the manner of a traditional marriage ceremony.
6. to combine, connect, or join so as to make more efficient, attractive, or profitable: The latest cameras marry automatic and manual features. A recent merger marries two of the nation's largest corporations.
7. Nautical.
a. to lay together (the unlaid strands of two ropes) to be spliced.
b. to seize (two ropes) together end to end for use as a single line.
c. to seize (parallel ropes) together at intervals.
8. to cause (food, liquor, etc.) to blend with other ingredients: to marry malt whiskey with grain whiskey.
–verb (used without object)
9. to take a husband or wife; wed.
10. (of two or more foods, wines, etc.) to combine suitably or agreeably; blend: This wine and the strong cheese just don't marry.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME marien < OF marier < L marītāre to wed, deriv. of marītus conjugal, akin to mās male (person)

Related forms:
mar⋅ri⋅er, noun
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mar⋅ry

2  [mar-ee]
–interjection Archaic.
(used as an exclamation of surprise, astonishment, etc.)
Origin:
1325–75; ME; euphemistic var. of Mary (the Virgin)
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mar·ry 1   (mār'ē)   
v.   mar·ried, mar·ry·ing, mar·ries

v.   tr.

    1. To join in marriage: They have been married for 25 years.

    2. To take as a spouse: She married him two years ago.

    3. To give in marriage.

  2. To perform a marriage ceremony for: The rabbi married the couple.

  3. To obtain by marriage: marry money.

  4. Nautical To join (two ropes) end to end by interweaving their strands.

  5. To unite in a close, usually permanent way: "His material marries the domestic and the exotic" (Clifton Fadiman).

v.   intr.

  1. To take a husband or wife; wed: They married in their twenties.

  2. To combine or blend agreeably: Let the flavors marry overnight.


[Middle English marien, from Old French marier, from Latin marītāre, from marītus, married.]
mar·ry 2   (mār'ē)   
interj.   Archaic
Used as an exclamation of surprise or emphasis.

[Middle English Marie, the Virgin Mary, ultimately from Greek Maria; see Mary1.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

marry  (v.)
1297, from O.Fr. marier, from L. maritare "to wed, marry, give in marriage," from maritus "married man, husband," of uncertain origin, perhaps ult. from "provided with a *mari," a young woman, from PIE base *meri- "young wife," akin to *meryo- "young man" (cf. Skt. marya- "young man, suitor"). Said from 1530 of the priest, etc., who performs the rite.

marry  (interj.)
a common oath in the Middle Ages, c.1350, now obsolete, a corruption of the name of the Virgin Mary.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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