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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
remarry
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
never
▪ Her husband had died many years before: she had never remarried.
▪ Black Shawl never remarried, and lived until the late 19205.
▪ He never remarried, never even looked at another woman, and the fight started up again between the two men.
▪ She had plenty of suitors, but never remarried.
▪ Dewar never remarried, and spent the rest of his life in the former matrimonial home in Glasgow.
■ VERB
divorce
▪ Once her career was launched, Miura divorced and remarried.
▪ He was divorced and remarried in 1970.
▪ In the same survey a solid majority supported allowing divorced Catholics to remarry in the Church.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Elizabeth Taylor remarried Richard Burton after they had divorced years earlier.
▪ It was a pity our father never remarried after our mother's death.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dewar never remarried, and spent the rest of his life in the former matrimonial home in Glasgow.
▪ He was divorced and remarried in 1970.
▪ Many years before, his wife had died, and he had remarried.
▪ Several of the grieving spouses have remarried.
▪ She's going to remarry too.
▪ The number of divorcees remarrying in church has risen steadily since such weddings were sanctioned in 1981.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remarry

Remarry \Re*mar"ry\ (r?-m?r"rr?), v. t. & i. To marry again.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
remarry

1520s, from re- "back, again" + marry. Related: Remarried; remarrying.

Wiktionary
remarry

vb. To marry a second or subsequent time.

WordNet
remarry
  1. v. marry, not for the first time; "After her divorce, she remarried her high school sweetheart"

  2. [also: remarried]

Usage examples of "remarry".

His first wife had died birthing Aymer, and he waited six years to remarry.

In New Kelvin even the youngest child would have known at a glance the things Peace considered important about himself: his place as a member of the Sodality of Illuminators, his personal vow not to remarry, his promotion to a counselor to the Dragon Speaker.

In 1964, when his daughters Margarite and Celeste were nine and six respectively, he remarried.

Two or three years later his mother remarried a recusant, Denis Bainbridge.

I remarry, and take for wife the daughter of King Sayren Stund of Oldorando, this kingdom will be linked more firmly to the Holy Pannovalan Empire, and from that we shall derive strength.

For a year or more, until Susanna Adams was remarried to an older Braintree man named John Hall, she continued to live with her son Peter in the family homestead next door, and the two women grew extremely fond of one another.

She had swooped into Pottery Barn one afternoon for simple, disposable furniture, but the walls were adorned with truly beautiful works of art from the collection of her mother, a woman of discerning taste and double fortune after remarrying an Argentinean named Helmut.

This is why, after two years of widowerhood, having already passed his sixtieth year, although still physically quite youthful, he remarried.

But the queen, instead of thanking Herries for this devotion, seemed very much surprised at his boldness, and scornfully signing to him to rise, she coldly replied that her heart was silent as regarded the Earl of Bothwell, and that, if she should ever remarry, which was not probable, she would neither forget what she owed to her people nor what she owed to herself.

By that time, of course, your mother had remarried and was financially secure.

That had been difficult, but her mother had not remarried until very recently, and though she had had various boyfriends, none had ever moved in with them.

My father remarried two years later, to a woman named Hope, who was much younger than he was.

It concluded, at least as far as he was concerned, in 1858 when he remarried in his hometown in western New York.

Fillmore, just remarried, did not want to stir old passions and especially did not want anything else put in writing, and so he had just avoided all contact with her.

His mother apparently remarried and went to live in America, leaving Gray here.