MARRY Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

marry

verb

ˈmer-ē

Definition of marry

as in to wed

to perform the ceremony of marriage for they chose a priest who was a family friend to marry them

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as in to match

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

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as in to remarry

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

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as in to mate

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

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as in to combine

to come together to form a single unit white wine and chicken marry especially well

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Recent Examples of marry The former couple was married for 18 years before separating in 2022. — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2026 Swank and Schneider, who married in 2018, welcomed their twins in April 2023, when the actress was 48. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 Daddy served as best man and Mum was a bridesmaid when Uncle Jack and Aunt Jackie were married in Newport, Rhode Island, on September 12, 1953. — Kerry Kennedy, Vanity Fair, 13 Oct. 2026 There’s outward social and internalized pressure on the Dashwood sisters to marry, and do it quickly, but per any Austen tale, the path is blotchy and blocked by obstacles and second-guessing. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for marry

Recent Examples of Synonyms for marry

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With this convention, noir wedded its core theme, inescapable destiny, to the form of cinematic storytelling.

— Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Chrome’s trashy, thrashy playing wedded the urgency of punk with devotion to older, sleazy rock ’n’ roll.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of wed

Verb

But on closer inspection, the radiation pattern didn’t seem to quite match that of a nuke.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
The signage gap matches recent polling, which shows Talarico, a four-term state representative, either tied or several points ahead of Paxton, who has never lost an election in 25 years.

— Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of match

Verb

The researchers found a population deep in a Japanese mountain valley where left- and right-coiling snails can mate and exchange genes.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
The mill is mated to an eight-speed ZF automatic gearbox which routes power to all four wheels, of course.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of mate

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Rays batters struck out 13 times after combining for 14 in the first two games.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
Holland was ousted in 2020, when Sarandos combined English-language and international content under Bajaria (elevating the latter to the largest autonomous content job in the streamer’s history).

— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of combine

Verb

Barnett hits first 3-point attempt Luke Barnett, who has arrived at KU with a reputation as an excellent 3- point shooter, connected on his first 3-point try shortly after checking in at the 15-minute mark of the first half.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026
But multiple times a date has admitted using AI to learn details about the show without having seen it, just to connect.

— Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of connect

Verb

In August 2021, Qatar signed another agreement committing $40 million to a cash assistance program that would give nearly 100,000 Palestinian households $100 per month for four months.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
In 2013, the foundation committed $50 million to establish Dell Medical School at UT Austin, along with another $10 million for local health care initiatives.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of commit

Verb

The Commission’s proposed 46% target falls short of that ambition, and of its own analysis, which identifies 50% as the economically optimal pathway to 2040.

— Sophie Dembinski, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
To bypass this bottleneck, in 2024 her colleagues at Google Research proposed an alternative technique called cultivation, which works on a single state.

— Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026

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