Definition of marry

"marry" in the verb sense

1. marry, get married, wed, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse

take in marriage

2. marry, wed, tie, splice

perform a marriage ceremony

"The minister married us on Saturday"

"We were wed the following week"

"The couple got spliced on Hawaii"

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Quotations for marry

Marry come up my dirty cousin! [ Proverb ]

Advise none to marry or go to war. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Marry in haste, and repent at leisure,
It is good to marry late or never. [ Proverb ]

Honest men marry soon, wise men never. [ Scotch ]

Marry a widow before she leaves mourning. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I will oblige my daughters to marry for love. [ Madame De Stael ]

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife. [ Michelet ]

It is time to marry when the woman courts the man. [ Proverb ]

Men marry to make an end; women, to make a beginning. [ A. Dupuy ]

Two heads are better than one, or why do folks marry? [ Proverb ]

Never marry a widow, unless her first man was hanged. [ Proverb ]

Marry your daughters betimes lest they marry themselves. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You need not marry; you have troubles enough without it. [ Proverb ]

Neither marry nor buy an old beast; the reason is plain. [ Proverb ]

Marry your son when you will; your daughter when you can. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Between promising and performing, a man may marry his daughter. [ Proverb ]

It is harder to marry a daughter well, than to bring her up well. [ Proverb ]

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. [ William Penn ]

Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

One should always be in love: that is the reason one should never marry. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry. [ Calderon ]

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. [ Dr. Johnson ]

It is always imprudent to marry a woman for love in whose bosom you inspire none. [ Mme. d'Arconville ]

To marry is solemnly to submit one's liberty to law, and one's welfare to caprice.

If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter. [ Quarles ]

Women deceived by men want to marry them: it is a kind of revenge as good as any other. [ Beaumanoir ]

'Tis my maxim, he's a fool that marries; but he's a greater that does not marry a fool. [ Wycherly ]

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason. [ Sir Thos. More ]

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year. [ Raleigh ]

They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter. [ Fuller ]

They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hopes that some one will come and cut the halter. [ Thomas Fuller ]

At the age of sixty, to marry a beautiful girl of sixteen, is to imitate those ignorant people who buy books to be read by their friends. [ A. Ricard ]

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position. [ Plutarch ]

If much reason is necessary to remain in celibacy, still more is required to marry. One must then have reason for two; and often all the reason of the two does not make one reasonable being. [ Balzac ]

Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with never a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare ]

If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

First, girls, don't smoke--that is, don't smoke to excess. I am seventy-three and a half years old, and have been smoking seventy-three of them. But I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. Second, don't drink - that is, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry - I mean, to excess. [ Mark Twain, "Advice To Girls", 1909 ]

marry in Scrabble®

The word marry is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters marry:

MARRY
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word marry

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marry in Words With Friends™

The word marry is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters marry:

MARRY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In marry

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Words within the letters of marry

2 letter words in marry (6 words)

3 letter words in marry (7 words)

4 letter words in marry (1 word)

5 letter words in marry (1 word)

marry + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence marry

Words that start with marry (2 words)

Words that end with marry (5 words)

Word Growth involving marry

Shorter words in marry

ar mar

ma mar

Longer words containing marry

intermarry intermarrying

marrying intermarrying

marrying mismarrying

marrying nonmarrying

marrying outmarrying

marrying remarrying

mismarry mismarrying

outmarry outmarrying

remarry remarrying