Engage and Marry

Engage

Engage verb - To hold the attention of.

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Marry and engage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Marry" instead a verb "Engage".

Nearby Words: engagement, engaging, engagingly

Marry verb - To give in marriage.

Usage example: the couple worried about the cost of marrying off five daughters

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Engage and marry are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Engage" instead a verb "Marry".

Nearby Words: marriage, married, marrying

man	engage man	marry man
interest	engage interest	marry interest
time	engage time	marry time
anyone	engage anyone	marry anyone
Other words: humans, times, guys.

For instance, say there are two people who are destined to marry each other, they could either do just that, go Undercover as Lovers, engage in Courtly Love, jointly become parental substitutes for the same kid, etc.

Source: You Can't Fight Fate
Saeko seems just an incredibly beautiful woman with a penchant for manipulating Ryo, but she can not only manipulate everyone, she's incredibly good with knives and has hospitalized most of the people her father tried to engage her with (she refuses to marry a weaker man, and they failed her test).

Source: Lets Get Dangerous / Anime and Manga
All of that said, a case can easily be made that Elizabeth would have been a fool to engage in premarital sex if there was any chance of pregnancy, and would have been a fool to marry and give up all her power to a subject or a foreign prince.

Source: Useful Notes / The House of Tudor

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