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marry1 verb (marries, married, marrying) 1 to take someone as one's husband or wife • Will you marry me? 2 said of a priest, minister, official, etc: to perform the ceremony of marriage between two people • My uncle married us. 3 intrans to become joined in marriage • We married last June. 4 (usually marry someone to someone) said of a parent, guardian, etc: to give (a son, daughter or ward) in marriage to someone. 5 intr (also marry something up) to fit together, join up, or match (usually two things) correctly • The two sides do not marry. marrying adj likely to marry or inclined towards marriage • not the marrying kind.
ETYMOLOGY: 13c: from French marier, from Latin maritare, from maritus a husband.

marry into something 1 to become involved in or associated with it by marriage • married into a large, close-knit family. 2 colloq to acquire it by marriage • He married into money.

marry someone off (colloq) to find a husband or wife for them.

marry2 exclamation, archaic an expression of surprise or earnest declaration; indeed!.
ETYMOLOGY: 14c: for 'By (the Virgin) Mary!'.