Marry

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Indeed! forsooth! a term of asseveration, or used to express surprise or other feeling.
  • [The word was formerly much used, with various additions, to express surprise, contempt, or satirical encouragement, as in the phrases following.]
  • To unite in wedlock or matrimony; join for life, as a man and a woman, or a man or woman to one of the opposite sex; constitute man and wife, or a husband or wife, according to the laws or customs of a nation.
  • To give in marriage; cause to be married.
  • To take for husband or wife: as, a man marries a woman, or a woman marries a man.
  • Figuratively, to unite intimately or by some close bond of connection.
  • Nautical, to fasten together, as two ropes, end to end, in such a way that in unreeving one from a block the other is drawn in.
  • Synonyms To wed, espouse.
  • To enter into the conjugal state; take a husband or a wife.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
  • intransitive verb. a man disposed to marry.
  • interjection. Indeed! in truth! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.
  • transitive verb. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place.
  • transitive verb. To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4.
  • transitive verb. To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.
  • transitive verb. To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.
  • transitive verb. Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.
  • transitive verb. To join two ropes end to end so that both will pass through a block.
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  • interjection. indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.
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  • verb. take in marriage
  • verb. perform a marriage ceremony
  • Word Usage
    "But sharper than all these impressions rang the words of the worldly-wise Higbee: _ "She's hunting night and day for a rich husband; she tries for them as fast as they come; she'd rather marry a sub-treasury -- she'd marry me in a minute -- she'd marry_ YOU; _but if you were broke she'd have about as much use for you ....""
    Antonyms
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    divorce  
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    Arie  Azeri  Barrie  Barry  Berri  
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    variant
    married  
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