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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remarry/#m1)

2) To remarry someone is to marry the same person again after being divorced from them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remarry/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remarry/#x1)
- Grandma never remarried after Grandad died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remarry/#x2)
- My aunt remarried last spring and we all went to the wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remarry/#x3)
- They divorced but later remarried each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remarry/#x4)
- Some churches will not let divorced people remarry in church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remarry/#x5)
- Mum said she might remarry one day, but not yet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remarry/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «remarry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remarry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.