remarry

verb

re·​mar·​ry (ˌ)rē-ˈmer-ē 

-ˈma-rē

remarried; remarrying

transitive + intransitive

: to marry again

"… So they got divorced. But they loved each other, so after a break of 10 years, they remarried …"

—Linda Hashim

… eventually separated and divorced, but though each remarried, they remained close …

—Margo Jefferson

She divorced her husband soon after the book came out, took up with, married and divorced a local disc jockey, remarried her first husband, dumped him again, and drank herself to death by age 39.

—Edward Kosner

remarriage

(ˌ)rē-ˈmer-ij 

-ˈma-rij

noun

plural remarriages

a happy remarriage with two children

Examples of remarry in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But John Ramsey, who remarried in 2011, has continued to push the Boulder police to find and arrest his daughter's killer. —Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024

Her mother later remarried a white Dane, and Larsen was raised in a white Danish household in Chicago, a rapidly growing and increasingly segregated city. —Ethelene Whitmire, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024

Now 12 years later, David was ready to remarry, and the ceremony took place in Hong Kong on November 1, 2024. —Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024

Though Cher and Bono couldn’t legally wed under California law, due to Cher’s age and a one-year waiting period before Bono could remarry, the couple moved into a one-bedroom house together in Hollywood. —Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1523, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

remarry

verb

re·​mar·​ry

rē-ˈmar-ē

: to marry again : to marry after an earlier marriage

remarriage

-ij

noun