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{
"term": "marry",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "marry",
"heSheIt": "marries"
},
"pastSimple": "married",
"pastParticiple": "married",
"ingForm": "marrying"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to become the husband or wife of somebody; to get married to somebody",
"sensetop": "marry (somebody)+ adj.",
"labels": "(especially North American English)(informal)(informal)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "She married a German.",
"contextForm": "marry (somebody)"
},
{
"text": "He was 36 when he married Viv."
},
{
"text": "I don't want to marry Robert."
},
{
"text": "We **got married** in a small village church."
},
{
"text": "Dali and Gala were married in a civil ceremony in Paris."
},
{
"text": "He never married."
},
{
"text": "I guess I'm **not the marrying kind** *(= the kind of person who wants to get married)*."
},
{
"text": "They **married young**.",
"contextForm": "+ adj."
},
{
"text": "He asked me to marry him but I said no."
},
{
"text": "He married her for love, not for money."
},
{
"text": "He promised to marry her when he returned."
},
{
"text": "This was the woman he chose to marry."
},
{
"text": "The couple plan to marry next year."
},
{
"text": "Matt told me he was going to marry again."
},
{
"text": "People are marrying later these days."
},
{
"text": "To keep his wealthy lifestyle, he had to marry well."
},
{
"text": "Jim settled in Wales, where he married and raised a family."
}
],
"topics": ["Religion and festivals", "Life stages"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["well"],
"verb + marry": ["hope to", "want to", "agree to"],
"preposition": ["for", "into"],
"phrases": ["get married", "marry late", "marry young"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to perform a ceremony in which two people get married",
"sensetop": "marry somebody",
"examples": [
{
"text": "They were married by the local priest."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to find a husband or wife for somebody, especially your daughter or son",
"sensetop": "marry somebody (to somebody)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to combine two different things, ideas, etc. successfully",
"sensetop": "marry A and B marry A with/to B",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The music business marries art and commerce.",
"contextForm": "marry A and B"
},
{
"text": "The focus for business should be how to marry economic efficiency with social justice.",
"contextForm": "marry A with/to B"
}
],
"synonyms": "unite"
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "people who marry quickly, without really getting to know each other, may discover later that they have made a mistake",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to marry a rich person",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmæri/",
"audio": "ma/marry/marry__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmæriz/",
"audio": "ma/marry/marries__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmærid/",
"audio": "ma/marry/married__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmæriɪŋ/",
"audio": "ma/marry/marrying__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmæri/",
"audio": "ma/marry/marry__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmæriz/",
"audio": "ma/marry/marries__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmærid/",
"audio": "ma/marry/married__us_4.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmæriɪŋ/",
"audio": "ma/marry/marrying__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French marier, from Latin maritare, from maritus, literally ‘married’, (as a noun) ‘husband’."
}