{
    "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’."
}