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Marring vs Marrying - What's the difference?

marring | marrying |

As verbs the difference between marring and marrying

is that marring is present participle of lang=en while marrying is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between marring and marrying

is that marring is something that mars or spoils; a blemish while marrying is a marriage.

marring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that mars or spoils; a blemish.
  • * Samuel R. Delany,
    • 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.

    marrying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.