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adjective

ˈmer-ēd How to pronounce married (audio)
Definition of marriednext
as in marital
of or relating to marriage a sermon on the joys and responsibilities of married love

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verb

past tense of marry
1
as in connected
to perform the ceremony of marriage for they chose a priest who was a family friend to marry them

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2
as in committed
to give in marriage the couple worried about the cost of marrying off five daughters

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as in remarried
to take as a spouse he married his girlfriend three years ago, and they've been happy ever since

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4
as in mated
to take a spouse she had always believed she would never marry, but fate proved her wrong

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as in combined
to come together to form a single unit white wine and chicken marry especially well

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Recent Examples of married
Adjective
Unmarried women often lived in the parental home, or went to live with a married sibling, or formed a household with other sisters who didn’t have husbands, either. — Kelly Marie Coyne, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026 His wife, Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon), sees therapeutic possibility in a labor documentary being directed by Ye-ji (Cho Yeo-jeong), who is herself married to wealthy private-equity honcho Sang-woo (Zo In-sung). — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
The teams at both bars were also celebrating Tallman, who was recently engaged to be married. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026 The two married in 2016 and named their first child together Theo, after Siegel’s character in The Haunting of Hill House. — Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for married
Recent Examples of Synonyms for married
  1. marital
  2. connected
  3. committed
  4. engaged
  5. mated
  6. combined
  7. wedded
  8. matched
Adjective
  • That last might be especially true for female human beings who may be more encouraged to have derived an identity based on our role as marital partner or parent.
    — Gloria Steinem, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026
  • In roughly 90% of that subset, according to the organization's founder, Fraidy Reiss, marital exemptions in state statutory-rape laws shielded the adult spouse from prosecution.
    — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of marital
Verb
  • Once connected to tools, accounts, codebases, internal systems or financial workflows, AI agents can aggressively (and perniciously) take action on their own with limited human intervention.
    — Larry Bradley, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • In the opening quarter, Jackson rushed for the Ravens’ first touchdown, and later connected with Zay Flowers for a 54-yard score.
    — Candace Buckner, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of connected
Verb
  • The atrocities committed in Chile were similar to those in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Central America, where leftist movements and guerrillas were squashed with incredible brutality.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The four were acquitted on six charges of crimes against humanity because the judges said the prosecutors failed to prove that crimes were committed as part of a widespread and systematic attack on civilians.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of committed
Verb
  • McKenna and Hall talked about the unique advertising Audible has engaged this year, like an ad that took TikTok out of a phone and onto a building in Times Square.
    — Mya Copeland, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The pair got married last March, having announced that they were engaged shortly following Boise State’s 56-31 win over UNLV last October.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of engaged
Verb
  • After additional testing there, the vehicle will undergo a static fire test before being mated with the upper stage.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026
  • For the past eight years, that's when Jackie and Shadow have mated and begun reinforcing their longtime nest.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of mated
Verb
  • That pair, combined with the wider structure and personnel around them, ensure Leeds do not collapse when home sides like Brighton, predictably, lay it on thick.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Millions of dollars invested, millions tracked In Broward, Florida’s second most-populous county, law enforcement agencies have spent over $3 million combined to build their surveillance networks.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of combined
Verb
  • Her power of creation and transformation is not wedded to motherhood but her own intelligence and desires.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 27 July 2026
  • In novels such as Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go, Yasunari Kawabata wedded stream-of-consciousness to classical forms of ritual and performance, modeling rapid Japanese westernization through stories that overlay the ancient and the modern.
    — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
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Verb
  • Later, detectives produced three male DNA profiles from evidence collected at the scene, including some pulled from beer bottles and cigarette butts, but none were ever matched to anyone until recently.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The styling and stagecraft matched a typical fashion-week launch, but nothing in the lineup required producing new inventory.
    — Ashley Lynch, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of matched

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“Married.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/married. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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