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marry

[mar-ee]

verb (used with object)

to take in marriage: Susan married Ed.

to perform the marriage ceremonies for (two people); join in wedlock: The minister married Susan and Ed.

to give in marriage; arrange the marriage of (often followed 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.

to unite intimately: Common economic interests marry the two countries.

to take as an intimate life partner by a formal exchange of promises in the manner of a traditional marriage ceremony.

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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.

Nautical.

to lay together (the unlaid strands of two ropes) to be spliced.

to seize (two ropes) together end to end for use as a single line.

to seize (parallel ropes) together at intervals.

to cause (food, liquor, etc.) to blend with other ingredients: to marry malt whiskey with grain whiskey.

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verb (used without object)

to wed.

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(of two or more foods, wines, etc.) to combine suitably or agreeably; blend: This wine and the strong cheese just don't marry.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English marien < Old French marier < Latin marītāre to wed, derivative of marītus conjugal, akin to mās male (person)

Related forms

mar·ri·er, noun

non·mar·ry·ing, adjective

un·mar·ry·ing, adjective

Example Sentences

Yet college educated cohabitors are much more likely to marry than their less educated counterparts.

Pongnon would ask her to marry him, and every year she'd say no.

Even in this case, then, there are women who would prefer to remain single rather than marry a deadbeat.

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Yet college educated cohabitors are much more likely to marry than their less educated counterparts.

Pongnon would ask her to marry him, and every year she'd say no.

Even in this case, then, there are women who would prefer to remain single rather than marry a deadbeat.

In the old days, when villages were poor, some daughters didn't live long enough to marry.

Men marry younger women and women prefer to marry older men, in general.

Sikander exemplifies how two cultures can ceremoniously marry and intertwine.

My boyfriend has full faith in me and ready to marry me.

All spoke of initiatives on their campuses that would marry the global to the local.

The right under discussion is to marry your partner of choice.

The king is going to marry a commoner which is a big deal.

It said that those who marry their close family members can get a sense of pleasure by simply doing it.

Probably not when you are planning to marry someone.

The man was talented, but he also had the good judgment to marry the daughter of another royal physician.

Yet many male students think they will marry women who will stay at home.

There are other, deeply unromantic reasons for a government to encourage its citizens to marry.

Yet another couple committed suicide after their parents forbade them to marry.

And then we're going to have to marry that with new kinds of experiments to work out what the circuitry in cells actually is.

Bearman drafted a grant proposal that attempted to marry oral-history techniques to a social-science-research framework.

These economic changes are themselves often reinforced by social ones: educated men now tend to marry educated women.

Catherine's father is a pig who is determined to marry her away to any rich man.

He said that she should marry a poor intellectual because he would be ambitious enough to work hard and do something interesting.

Although the eldest in his family, my husband was the last to marry.

It is largely the result of poor job prospects for men-and for women who marry.

Richard went on to marry the nurse who had cared for him.

One of my grad school profs told me all academics marry twice.

The fact that cohabitation is so acceptable means that those who do marry are a more select group.

Physicists have struggled to marry quantum mechanics with gravity for decades.

It's time to marry university programs with the modern versions of the old normal school, which emphasize practice over theory.

Men could do the same, or find a wife in the suburbs where they grew up, or marry a girl in the office.

Forth: be open to new information, but don't marry any speculative theory or interpretation.

And, since rabbis will not marry them, pressure is building for a form of civil marriage.

Most immigrant groups become less insular over time, as their children marry locals.

But, curiously, those who do marry now stay together for longer.

They eat the same food together, farm that food together and do not marry outsiders.

Support is growing for everything leftish, from tackling global warming to letting gays marry.

As people marry individuals from other cultures genetic patterns are quickly scrambled.

Women had to marry outside of the group or the group would have genetic problems that would tend to eliminate the initial group.

Indian parents often want their daughters to marry rich.

He can't marry her because he can't bring himself to make the commitment because she's not his physical type.

The deluxe wedding's appeal lies in its ability to marry consumer culture and romantic love.

Like a parking-meter vending machine that will marry you and your buddies for jokes.

And is unlikely that you will be, unless you marry into that world or found a fabulous company that you can sell for millions.

Florence was simply a troublesome daughter who took an unseemly interest in hospitals and refused to marry.

One has even used movie stars as models for understanding why people tend to marry partners with.

EverQuest characters frequently marry online and sometimes the romance carries over into real.

Labor has struggled to marry what remains of its old base with a new generation of affluent, centre-left voters.

Faboo told the roommate that he planned to marry the girl in the fantasy game and in real life.

No one ever decided who to marry based on a seismograph reading.

The patriarchal leader directs who is to marry whom and when.

Men who marry older might have different personnality traits then those who tend to marry younger.

Email is not the means by which you tell someone that you want to marry them, or that you want to fire them.

Another thing that can help tremendous is to marry a non-academic and don't have kids until you are finished with grad school.

My sister didn't want me to marry an academic and move to the boondocks.

Godrej will eventually face a universal problem: how to marry ambition with family control.

To get a better picture of what is happening, the experiment will need to marry three tools.

The back end of the system does far more than marry data points to locations.

Nobody is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to marry or have children--it's as simple as that.

Most of them long to marry their lovers and enjoy the respect society affords to wives.

The government reserves the right to refuse to marry whom they please, subject to existing law.

To make banking safer, regulators need to marry two seemingly contradictory aims.

Their daughters could only marry men resulting from similar exchanges or from the original homeland.

But when people marry you take a vow in sickness and health.

But if you allow them to marry and be considered spouses then the inclusion is automaticno amendments needed.

Terri was cruelly deprived of her chance to recover by a man who was in a hurry to marry someone else.

The group began to brainstorm new ways to marry art and activism.

Villagers say that no girl may marry into a neighbouring village until her in-laws promise to provide a girl in return.

My suggestion is for the time being to marry the concerns regarding climate change with other issues that run parallel.

Alternatively, one of these two big boys might marry a low-cost airline, linking cheap flights with cheap beds.

If the eldest son has a duty to go marry and produce heirs, then the gay sons are not needed for that.

Even marriage chances wane: malnourished boys marry women of lower educational levels when they grow.

And for those who want to marry a black man of similar status, the odds are unkind.

As fewer women marry and have children, they have more cash to spend.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

interjection Archaic.

(used as an exclamation of surprise, astonishment, etc.)

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English; euphemistic variant of Mary (the Virgin)

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World English Dictionary

marry¹ (ˈmærɪ)

—vb (sometimes foll by up) , -ries, -rying, -ried
1.	to take (someone as one's husband or wife) in marriage
2.	(tr) to join or give in marriage
3.	(tr) to acquire (something) by marriage: marry money
4.	to unite closely or intimately
5.	to fit together or align (two things); join
6.	(tr) nautical
	a. to match up (the strands) of unlaid ropes before splicing
	b. to seize (two ropes) together at intervals along their lengths

[C13: from Old French marier, from Latin marītāre, from marītus married (man), perhaps from mās male]

'marrier¹

—n

marry² (ˈmærɪ)

—*interj*
	archaic an exclamation of surprise, anger, etc

[C14: euphemistic for the Virgin Mary]

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Word Origin & History

marry

c.1300, 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

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from 1530 of the priest, etc., who performs the rite. Related: Married; marrying.

marry

a common oath in the Middle Ages, c.1350, now obsolete, a corruption of the name of the Virgin Mary.

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