remarry

«remarry» in Mova's school dictionary: to get married again, after a divorce or after a husband… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (remarry, remarries, remarried, remarrying)

meaning for a pupil

1) To remarry is to get married again, after a divorce or after a husband or wife has died. tree →

2) To remarry someone is to marry the same person again after being divorced from them. tree →

sense in the lessons

A word of adult life and family stories: a child may learn that a parent has remarried, so there is now a stepmother or stepfather and maybe stepbrothers or stepsisters. Churches have their own rules about remarriage. Phrases: «remarry after a divorce», «never remarried».

examples

• After the divorce, Dad remarried and I got a stepsister. tree →
• Grandma never remarried after Grandad died. tree →
• My aunt remarried last spring and we all went to the wedding. tree →
• They divorced but later remarried each other. tree →
• Some churches will not let divorced people remarry in church. tree →
• Mum said she might remarry one day, but not yet. tree →

note

Change y to i: remarries, remarried, but remarrying keeps y. The noun is «remarriage». «Re-» means again, as in redo, rewrite. Remarrying does not stop a parent being your parent; the new partner is a step-parent.

In the corpora

• Remarrying means marrying again after a divorce or after a husband or wife has died.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «remarry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.