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marring

English

Etymology 1

Verb

marring

  1. present participle of mar: ruining, thwarting, spoiling.
    • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III scene ii[1]:
      [] Hath all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit?
      From Tripolis, from Mexico, from England,
      From Lisbon, Barbary, and India?
      And not one vessel scape the dreadful touch
      Of merchant-marring rocks?

Etymology 2

mar +? -ing

Noun

marring (plural marrings)

  1. Something that mars or spoils; a blemish.
    • 1985, Samuel R. Delany, Flight from Nevèrÿon:
      Unable to read even as much of them as the scamps who wrote them and could read nothing more, the smuggler had finally trained himself to ignore them; they were marrings to be overlooked while the eye was out for other, more meaningful detail.

Anagrams

  • armring

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marrying

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, NYC) IPA(key): /?mæ?i??/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?m??i??/
  • Hyphenation: mar?ry?ing

Verb

marrying

  1. present participle of marry

Noun

marrying (plural marryings)

  1. A marriage.
    • 2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Crown of Dalemark (page 116)
      After that there were marryings and intermarryings, the way there are, and Kredindale gets related to half the earls of the North.

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