remarry

Everyday

1. To remarry is to get married again, after a divorce or after a husband or wife has died. tree →
2. To remarry someone is to marry the same person again after being divorced from them. tree →

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 →
• Grandma never remarried after Grandad died. tree →
• My aunt remarried last spring and we all went to the wedding. tree →
• They divorced but later remarried each other. tree →
• Some churches will not let divorced people remarry in church. tree →
• Mum said she might remarry one day, but not yet. tree →

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.