▸ verb: (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. ▸ verb: (intransitive) To enter into marriage with one another. ▸ verb: (transitive) To take as husband or wife. ▸ verb: (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. ▸ verb: (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place. ▸ verb: (intransitive, figuratively, of inanimate or abstract things) To join or connect. See also marry up. ▸ verb: (transitive, figuratively) To unite; to join together into a close union. ▸ verb: (nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time. ▸ verb: (nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
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