marries

verb

present tense third-person singular of marry
1
as in connects
to perform the ceremony of marriage for they chose a priest who was a family friend to marry them

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2
as in weds
to give in marriage the couple worried about the cost of marrying off five daughters

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3
as in remarries
to take as a spouse he married his girlfriend three years ago, and they've been happy ever since

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4
as in mates
to take a spouse she had always believed she would never marry, but fate proved her wrong

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5
as in combines
to come together to form a single unit white wine and chicken marry especially well

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Recent Examples of marries The domino arepa marries rich black beans fragrant with cinnamon and guajillo, and a tangy blend of mozzarella, Gouda and feta cheeses. — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 Marshall’s revamped Stockwell III marries the two ideas, fitting a ton of features into a sleek package that looks like a mini version of the brand’s iconic amps. — Eliza Thompson, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 The result is the new Jordan Tailored Sport Collection, which marries the GOAT’s bold off-court style with Chinese street style. — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026 The biomimetic strategy marries engineering and aesthetics; by echoing the spider lily’s radial symmetry, architect Adrian Smith and engineer Bill Baker created a form that is both beautiful and structurally efficient. — Kieron Marchese, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2026 Jackson gives you a whole clan of old-money Brooklyn Heights Stocktons, but the character who carries the thesis is Sasha, the middle-class New England girl who marries in and is instantly, permanently cast as the arriviste. — Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026 The brand also frequently teams up with designers for limited-edition drops; recently, this includes the Beni x Flamingo Estate collection, which marries Los Angeles style with Moroccan tradition. — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2026 At the 350-acre estate, head winemaker Maya Hood White marries scientific precision with an intuitive feel for the land, using cover crops and careful canopy management to foster biodiversity and balance. — Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2026 Du Li An marries another man, Steely Bo; in the film, Yeo tied that disappearance directly to the racial violence of May 13 instead. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marries
  1. connects
  2. weds
  3. proposes
  4. mates
  5. combines
  6. matches
  7. engages
  8. commits
Verb
  • SparkHub connects creator content to tracked sales inside its ShopBack app.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • If no one inside the company can explain how your data connects to an outcome that affects you, the privacy statement is decoration.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of connects
Verb
  • The resulting book, a deliberately meandering account of her Steel City sojourn, weds memoir, travelogue, philosophical rumination and journalistic investigation.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
  • Their paths continue together into adulthood in Silicon Valley, when Cecily marries a tech industry magnate and Sam, a doctor, weds a famed social media founder.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
Definition of weds
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  • The second scenario in the speculative design research is built around an imagined service called Paren’t, which proposes to preserve a parent’s AI-powered postmortem presence for their child.
    — Lissa Soep, Vox, 17 Oct. 2026
  • For example, one hypothesis proposes that stress can accelerate early brain development.
    — Catherine Demers, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of proposes
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  • In addition to that, the company’s next car, the Tourbillon, will be its first to feature the company’s new hybrid powertrain, which mates a three-foot-long, naturally aspirated V-16 with a trio of electric motors.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 17 July 2026
  • His rotation mates Jameson Taillon (20) and Shota Imanaga (17) have given up the most in the majors.
    — Andy Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2026
Definition of mates
Verb
  • In modern nuclear weapons, conventional explosives set off a fission reaction—the splitting of big atoms—whose intensity then ignites a fusion reaction that combines light atoms.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Its formula combines peptides, niacinamide, and exfoliating lipohydroxy acid to help skin look smoother and brighter, while keeping it hydrated for hours.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of combines
Verb
  • Shift workers, night owls or anyone running late schedules may feel better with a midday or early afternoon session that matches their own rhythm.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
  • No new date was set to decide whether the city or county, or some collaboration between the two, will run the database that records contacts with homeless people and the system that matches people to housing.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of matches
Verb
  • Ironically, the one spot where Dearborn Park genuinely engages the cityscape is along the west side of State south of Roosevelt where a row of single-family homes follows Chicago’s typical development pattern.
    — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The combined implication of transitivity and the infinitive verb is that, speaking conceptually, the artist engages a category of encounter that is absolute, while process and contingency govern the actuality of the work as a function of time.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of engages
Verb
  • Sai de Silva’s knee commits seppuku during Tipsy Tennis (patent pending).
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The casting was essential because the film only works if everyone commits completely to this ridiculous situation.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of commits

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“Marries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marries. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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