remarry

/'ri:'mæri/

Thân thiện

She decided to remarry her childhood friend in a small garden ceremony.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To marry again; to enter into a marriage after a previous marriage has ended (through divorce or death of a spouse).

Usage

• The verb "remarry" describes the action of getting married for a second or subsequent time. It is typically used in the context of someone whose previous marriage has legally ended.
• It is an intransitive verb (e.g., ) but can also be used transitively with a direct object (e.g., ).

Examples

• Intransitive usage:
  • After a few years of being a widow, she decided to remarry.
  • He divorced in 2010 but did not remarry until 2020.
• Transitive usage:
  • He remarried his ex-wife five years after their divorce.
  • She plans to remarry her former partner next spring.

Advanced Usage

• "To remarry into": To marry again, becoming part of a new family or social group through this marriage.
  • After her first husband's death, she remarried into a very wealthy family.
• "To be eligible to remarry": To have the legal right to marry again, often after a divorce is finalized.
  • Once the divorce decree is absolute, both parties are free to remarry.

Variants and Related Words

• Remarriage (noun): The act of marrying again or the state of being married again.
  • His remarriage brought him great happiness.
• Remarried (adjective): Describing someone who has married again.
  • She is a remarried mother of two.

Synonyms

• Marry again: The most direct synonym.
• Wed again: A more formal synonym.

Antonyms

• Divorce: To legally dissolve a marriage.
• Separate: To stop living together as a married couple.

Related Phrases

• "Tie the knot again": An informal idiom meaning to remarry.
  • Ten years after their divorce, they decided to tie the knot again.

Học thuật

Verb

1. marry, not for the first time
   • After her divorce, she remarried her high school sweetheart