Usually means: Formalize a ceremony with ritual.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word solemnize:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. solemnize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. solemnize: Merriam-Webster
  3. solemnize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. solemnize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. solemnize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. solemnize: Vocabulary.com
  7. solemnize: Wordnik
  8. solemnize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. solemnize: Wiktionary
  10. solemnize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. solemnize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. solemnize: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. solemnize: Dictionary.com
  14. Solemnize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. solemnize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. solemnize: Rhymezone
  17. Solemnize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. solemnize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. solemnize: FreeDictionary.org
  20. solemnize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. solemnize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. solemnize: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (solemnize)

▸ verb:  (transitive, US) To make solemn, or official, through ceremony or legal act.
▸ verb:  To make grave, serious, and reverential.

Similar:
solemnizate, solemnise, officialize, formalize, ceremonialize, resolemnize, consecrate, sanctify, pronounce, officialise, more...

Opposite:
desecrate, profane, defile, violate

Types:
marry, wedding, wed, marry off, wed off, marry out, wed out, marry up, wed up, more...



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Similar:
solemnizate, solemnise, officialize, formalize, ceremonialize, resolemnize, consecrate, sanctify, pronounce, officialise, more...

Opposite:
desecrate, profane, defile, violate

Types:
marry, wedding, wed, marry off, wed off, marry out, wed out, marry up, wed up, more...



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