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

The second time around, the former couple remarried in 2013 and stayed married until Gregg passed in 2021. —Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 21 Sep. 2024

And a person who believed Princess Diana was killed so Prince Charles could remarry was reminded of the 8-year gap between Diana’s fatal car accident and the future king’s second wedding, undermining the argument that the two events were related. —Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024

That has meant disregarding an Islamic stipulation to wait 40 days after divorce to remarry. —Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024

Anderson Berard remarried to Charles Berard in 2022. —Bryan West, USA TODAY, 25 July 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