marry

1. (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.Examples: "Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry."; "Evelyn, in his "Diary," under date 1641, says that at Haerlem "they showed us a cottage where, they told us, dwelt a woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and, being now a widow, was prohibited to marry in future; […] ""; "But Esau, being now forty years of age, took a false step by marrying not only without his parents consent; but with two wives, daughters of the Hittites."Synonyms: get married, wedAntonyms: divorceintransitive

2. (intransitive) To enter into marriage with one another.Examples: "Jack and Jenny married soon after they met."intransitive

3. (transitive) To take as husband or wife.Examples: "In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece."; "First Xavier (Vernon Chatman): You're about as deep as a bowl of soup, and your tongue is as sharp as a soup spoon. Second Xavier (Vernon Chatman): Hey, say what you want about me, but lay off the soup. First Xavier: If you love soup so much, why don't you marry soup? Second Xavier: 'cause I'm already married. To justice. First Xavier: Yeah. Only a blind girl would marry you."transitive

4. (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.Examples: "He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman."; "THe kyngdom̃ of hevẽ is lyke vnto a certayne kinge / which maryed his ſonne[…]."; "The Queen has set the example of marrying her children very early in life; […]"transitive

5. (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.Examples: "A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith."; "His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice."; "What ſhall the Curate controul me? Have I not the Preſentation? Tell him that I will not have my Play ſpoil'd; nay, that he ſhall marry the Couple himſelf—I ſay he ſhall."transitive

6. (intransitive, figuratively, of inanimate or abstract things) To join or connect. See also marry up.Examples: "There’s a big gap here. These two parts don’t marry properly."; "I can’t connect it, because the plug doesn’t marry with the socket."; "The firebox married to Britannia's boiler is not, however, in the Doncaster tradition, notwithstanding that it is comparable in dimensions to that of the "V2.""figurativelyintransitive