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marry sb off phrasal verb
phrasal verb [M]
Definition
to make certain that someone, especially a female member of your family, gets married, or that they marry the person you have chosen
She was married off to the local doctor by the age of sixteen.
(Definition of marry sb off from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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