REMARRY (remarried)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: remarried   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does remarry mean? 

• REMARRY (verb)
  The verb REMARRY has 1 sense:

1. marry, not for the first time

  Familiarity information: REMARRY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMARRY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they remarry    ... he / she / it remarries   
Past simple: remarried   
Past participle: remarried   
-ing form: remarrying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marry, not for the first time

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

After her divorce, she remarried her high school sweetheart

Hypernyms (to "remarry" is one way to...):

conjoin; espouse; get hitched with; get married; hook up with; marry; wed (take in marriage)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue remarry

Derivation:

remarriage (the act of marrying again)

 Context examples 

Indicates a person whose marriage has been legally dissolved and has not remarried.

(Divorced, NCI Thesaurus)