intermarry
/ɪntəˈmari
/verb (intermarries, intermarrying, intermarried) [no object]
1(Of people belonging to different races, castes, or religions) become connected by marriage: over the centuries the Greeks intermarried with the natives...
- His people intermarried with the Burmese and gradually adopted the Buddhist religion.
- The Angles, Saxons, Danes, Frisians and other invaders intermarried with the existing Romano-British Celts, Romans, Jutes, Gauls, Greeks and Lombards.
- Many of the Scots who were pioneering the west in the 1800s intermarried with the Lakota while working their way through the mid-west as fur trappers.
1.1(Of close relations) marry each other: genetic defects caused by intermarrying...
- There may be regions where one predominates, but Iraqis intermarry and have relations across the country.
- They have been intermarrying for generations, which usually involves stepbrothers and stepsisters marrying one another.
- And all people groups can freely intermarry, resulting in a closer approximation to the genetic richness that would have characterized Noah's family.
Rhymes
- use immunity
- use inheritance
- useless
- uselessly
- uselessness
- Useless Parliament
- use-life
- usen
- usened
- Usenet
- use one's loaf
- use (or take) a sledgehammer to crack a nut
- use plaintiff
- user
- user account
- user authentication
- user cost
- user-definable
- user experience
- user-friendliness
- user-friendly
- user-generated
- user group
- user guide
- user-hostile