marry

Indeed! forsooth! a term of asseveration, or used to express surprise or other feeling.

[The word was formerly much used, with various additions, to express surprise, contempt, or satirical encouragement, as in the phrases following.]

To unite in wedlock or matrimony; join for life, as a man and a woman, or a man or woman to one of the opposite sex; constitute man and wife, or a husband or wife, according to the laws or customs of a nation.

To give in marriage; cause to be married.

To take for husband or wife: as, a man marries a woman, or a woman marries a man.

Figuratively, to unite intimately or by some close bond of connection.

Nautical, to fasten together, as two ropes, end to end, in such a way that in unreeving one from a block the other is drawn in.

Synonyms To wed, espouse.

To enter into the conjugal state; take a husband or a wife.

To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.