remarry
pronunciation
How to pronounce remarry in British English:
UK [ˌri:ˈmæri]
How to pronounce remarry in American English:
US [ˌriːˈmæri]
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- Verb:
- marry, not for the first time
Word Origin
- remarry (v.)
- 1520s, from re- "back, again" + marry. Related: Remarried; remarrying.
Example
- 1. With the increasing acceptance of cohabitation , why remarry ?
- 2. The widowers tended to remarry , and the new wife often found that her children had to compete for scarce resources with the children of the husband 's earlier union .
- 3. The study from the university of sheffield shows that previously women would marry early and if widowed were too old to remarry thus favouring early childbirth in women .
- 4. For all families , whether they accept the settlement or not , massey is supplementing workers ' compensation benefits , so widows receive miners ' full salaries for the rest of their lives or until they remarry .
- 5. Seventy percent of people who divorce , remarry .