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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

marry

verb

1: take in marriage [syn: {get married}, {wed}, {conjoin}, {hook up with}, {get hitched with}, {espouse}]

2: perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii" [syn: {wed}, {tie}, {splice}] [also: {married}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

married

adjective

1: joined in matrimony; "a married man"; "a married couple" [ant: {unmarried}]

2: of or relating to the state of marriage; "marital status"; "marital fidelity"; "married bliss" [syn: {marital}, {matrimonial}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

married See {marry}

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

committed \committed\ adjective

1. Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude. Opposite of {uncommitted}.

Note: [Narrower terms: {bound up, involved, wrapped up}; {dedicated, devoted}; {pledged, sworn}] [WordNet 1.5]

2. Associated in an exclusive sexual relationship; also called {attached}. Opposite of {unattached}.

Note: [Narrower terms: {affianced}, {bespoken}, {betrothed}, {engaged}, {pledged}, {promised}(predicate); {married}] [Also See: {loving}.]

Syn: attached. [WordNet 1.5]

3. Consigned involuntarily to custody, as in a prison or mental institution. [WordNet 1.5]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Married \Mar"ried\, adjective

1. Being in the state of matrimony; having a spouse; wedded; as, a married man or woman; -- of one person.

2. Of or pertaining to marriage; connubial; as, the married state; one's married name.

3. Wedded to each other; as, a married couple; John and Joan are no longer married; -- of two people. [PJC]

4. Hence: [fig.] Joined to form one object; united. [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Marry \Mar"ry\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Married}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Marrying}.] [OE. marien, F. marier, L. maritare, fr. maritus husband, fr. mas, maris, a male. See {Male}, and cf. {Maritral}.]

1. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place.

Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself. --Gay.

2. To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4.

A woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and being now a widow, was prohibited to marry. --Evelyn.

3. To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.

M[ae]cenas took the liberty to tell him [Augustus] that he must either marry his daughter [Julia] to Agrippa, or take away his life. --Bacon.

4. To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.

Note: We say, a man is married to or marries a woman; or, a woman is married to or marries a man. Both of these uses are equally well authorized; but given in marriage is said only of the woman.

They got him [the Duke of Monmouth] . . . to declare in writing, that the last king [Charles II.] told him he was never married to his mother. --Bp. Lloyd.

5. Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you. --Jer. iii. 14.

{To marry ropes}. (Naut.) (a) To place two ropes along side of each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time. (b) To join two ropes end to end so that both will pass through a block. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

attached \attached\ adjective

1. fastened together. a picnic table with attached benches [WordNet 1.5]

2. being joined in close association; -- of people or organizations.

Syn: affiliated, connected [WordNet 1.5]

3. fastened onto another object; -- of objects smaller than the main object. [WordNet 1.5]

4. (Architecture) connected by a common wall or passageway; -- used of buildings. {detached} [WordNet 1.5]

5. (Biology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about. an attached oyster {vagile}

Syn: sessile [WordNet 1.5]

6. associated in an exclusive sexual relationship; -- opposite of {unattached}.

Note: Narrower terms include: {affianced, bespoken, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate)}; {married}. Also See: loving.

Syn: committed. [WordNet 1.5]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "married": affiliate, affiliated, allied, associate, associated, bridal, cabalistic, confederate, confederated, conjugal, connubial, conspiratorial, corporate, coupled, enleagued, epithalamic, federate, federated, husbandly, hymeneal, in cahoots, in league, in partnership, in with, leagued, marital, matched, mated, matrimonial, nuptial, one, paired, partnered, partners with, spousal, teamed, wed, wedded, wifely

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