marry

verb marries, married, marrying

1 (I, T) to become someone's husband or wife: get married (to): I got married when I was 18. | Billy got married to the first girl he went out with. | marry sb: one of those romances about a rich tycoon who marries his secretary | marry money (=marry someone who is rich)

2 (T) to perform the ceremony at which two people get married: The priest who married us was really nice.

3 (T) to find a husband or wife for one of your children: marry sb to sb: She's determined to marry all her daughters to rich men.

4 (T) formal to combine two quite different ideas, designs, tastes etc together: marry sth with sth: The design marries traditional styles with modern materials.

5 not the marrying kind not the kind of person who wants to get married

marry into sth phrasal verb (T) to join a family or social group by marrying someone who belongs to it: She married into a very wealthy family. marry sb off phrasal verb (T) to find a husband or wife for someone (+ to): They married her off to the first young man who came along. USAGE NOTE: MARRY GRAMMAR You marry someone or get/are married to someone, not with them. But you can be married with four children. SPOKEN-WRITTEN Get married is more informal and more common in spoken English than marry: Marti is getting married to Jeff next week (compare Marti is marrying Jeff next week). In spoken English, speakers often avoid to with married by saying, for example: Jeff and Marti got married/are married.