Definitions for marries

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marries mar·ry

Spelling: [mar-ee]

IPA: /ˈmær i/

Marries is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 214 anagrams from letters in marries (aeimrrs).

Definitions for marries

verb (used with object)

1. to take in marriage:
2. to perform the marriage ceremonies for (two people); join in wedlock:
3. to give in marriage; arrange the marriage of (often followed by off):
4. to unite intimately:
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:
7. 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.
8. to cause (food, liquor, etc.) to blend with other ingredients:

verb (used without object)

1. to wed.
2. (of two or more foods, wines, etc.) to combine suitably or agreeably; blend:

Origin of marries

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

Examples for marries

Bree marries her lawyer, Trip, (Scott Bakula), moves to Kentucky, and becomes a state legislator.

Oh, how brave women are—every181 woman who ever marries a man!

There must be something low in a man who marries a woman like that, don't you think?

"I don't care who she marries, as long as she is happy," said Sarah's mother.

Nicolay marries a woman who waited for him in Illinois through the years when he and Hay shared a bedroom in the White House.

Charlotte marries Mr. Verver, and renews her affair with Amerigo (now her stepson-in-law).

And it is a “problem-solving populism” that marries the twin impulses of populism and progressivism.

But when she returns home to care for an ailing relative, he breaks the engagement and marries someone else.

The imitative art is an inferior who marries an inferior, and has inferior offspring.

After that there are usually two rivals, and she marries one of them—that's three.