Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To divorce; dissolve the marriage contract of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To annul the marriage of; to divorce.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
undo the action ofmarrying .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Media Institute unMarriage event, "where he invited all couples to" unmarry "until everyone has the opportunity to marry whomever they want.
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If the Census uses current methods, it would "unmarry people who checked off 'married couples,'" — even in states where same-sex marriage is legal, Carey says.
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And if you think you should unmarry us, think again.
Barbara J. Nelson: I Am Like a Free Person of Color in a Slave State 2009
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The U.S. Census Bureau, principally, is forbidden from counting same-sex married couples as married -- even when they are legally married in their home states -- by the Defense of Marriage Act. In 2010, as in previous decades, the decennial Census will once again unmarry those same-sex couples who report themselves as married, and count them instead as "unmarried partners."
Philip N. Cohen: Same-Sex Marriage and Children, What We Don't Know Shouldn't Hurt Us 2009
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But people marry and unmarry for reasons remote from the IRS.
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To have risked his life in her rescue, at such a moment, seemed to him nothing, could he but more certainly have ascertained her own wishes, and real situation: but as she attempted neither resistance nor remonstrance, he concluded Bellamy spoke truth; and if they were married, he could not unmarry them; and if they were going to her friends, they were doing all he could now exact.
Camilla 2008
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Sixtus V., a Cordelier become pope, declared, by his letter of the 25th of June, 1587, to his nuncio in Spain, that he must unmarry all those who were not possessed of testicles.
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I hope my fellow citizens will oppose the proposed constitutional amendment that seeks to unmarry the neighbors.
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I hope my fellow citizens will oppose the proposed constitutional amendment that seeks to unmarry the neighbors.
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Gay marriage has been legal in Massachusetts since May 2004, of course, so the citizen petition seeks to "unmarry the neighbors," as E.J. Graff puts it.
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