Definitions for marry

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marry mar·ry

Spelling: [mar-ee]

IPA: /ˈmær i/

Marry is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in marry (amrry).

Definitions for marry

interjection

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

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 marry

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

Examples for marry

She'd marry me—she'd marry you, if you was the best thing in sight.

It happened on Glee and in Sex and The City, and now in Japan women can marry themselves.

Should you have thought she'd marry so soon after her divorce?

The star announces he is to marry his 27-year-old boyfriend.

That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.

He seems too decent to marry that way—and yet it's the only way I could marry him.

The only member of that household I could marry is not suited to my age.

Hearst is to be released from prison and is planning to marry.

Most critically, the split perspectives of Noah and Alison need to marry more elegantly.

She wa'n't meant fur it—and I'd rather have her marry an American, anyhow.