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Intermarry

//ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmæɹi// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To marry a member of another group, social stratum, or religion.

    "Mary was Catholic and Ron was Jewish, but they decided that it was acceptable to intermarry."

  2. 2
    marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group wordnet
  3. 3
    To marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group.

    "Mainland China and Taiwan do not border each other by land; they face each other across a 140-km-wide ocean strait. Taiwan-held Dadan Island sits 2 km away from Xiamen. Xiamenese can use binoculars to observe their kinfolk on Dadan Island, with whom they have traditionally intermarried (Mellor, 1993)."

Etymology

From inter- + marry.

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