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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intermarry
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But their kin survived and intermarried.
▪ So in these three cities, a total of 78 males and 78 females had intermarried.
▪ The dozen rich families have intermarried so many times that family trees are tangles of roots.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intermarry

Intermarry \In`ter*mar"ry\, v. i. To become connected by marriage between their members; to give and take mutually in marriage; -- said of families, ranks, races, castes, etc.

About the middle of the fourth century from the building of Rome, it was declared lawful for nobles and plebeians to intermarry.
--Swift.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intermarry

1570s, "to marry one another," from inter- + marry. Meaning "to marry across families, castes, tribes, etc." is from 1610s. Related: Intermarried; intermarrying.

Wiktionary
intermarry

vb. 1 To marry a member of another group, social stratum, or religion. 2 To marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group.

WordNet
intermarry
  1. v. marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group

  2. [also: intermarried]

Usage examples of "intermarry".

Goods for the Australoids are tokens of intention: to trade, to meet again, to fix frontiers, to intermarry, to sing and dance, and to share ideas and resources.

When they did intermarry, the off-spring, like Deadeye himself, preferred to keep their parentage quiet.

Kindred and Ehleenee intermarried and interbred, the talent began to crop up with more frequency, especially among the nobility.

The newer families have constantly intermarried with the older, and so many of them had a strain of the native in themand were often rather proud of it, too, in those days.

After 1832 the old land-owning aristocracy steadily lost power, but instead of disappearing or becoming a fossil they simply intermarried with the merchants, manufacturers and financiers who had replaced them, and soon turned them into accurate copies of themselves.

Its inhabitants intermarried without crossing from other stocks, and men determined their choice mainly by equality of fortune and rank.

That they had been intermarrying with their once-Videssian subjects for something close to eight hundred years now was not allowed to interfere with the warrior tradition.

The chances, moreover, of specimens that have varied successfully, intermarrying, are, I think, greater than the reviewer above quoted from would admit.

The captain probably imagined all this, as modern science denies that the intermarrying of relatives deteriorates the stock.

In Wales there was no need for legislation to prevent the conquering people intermarrying with the conquered.

Egyptians, the Greeks, the Spanish, the Moors, the Chinese, the Hindoos, the Peruvians, and all uncivilised people are represented as the inferior races, unfit to associate with the former on terms of equality, unfit to intermarry with them on any terms, unfit for any decisive voice in human affairs.

Afterwards, geneticists had wryly demonstrated that —since each racial group was so small that unless their descendants intermarried, each would undergo deteriorative genetic drift due to inbreeding on the colony planet—the racists had made cross-breeding necessary to survival.

Afterwards, geneticists had wryly demonstrated that-- since each racial group was so small that unless their descendents intermarried, each would undergo deteriorative genetic drift due to inbreeding on the colony planet--the racists had made crossbreeding necessary to survival.

Afterwards, geneticists had wryly demonstrated that–since each racial group was so small that unless their descendants intermarried, each would undergo deteriorative genetic drift due to inbreeding on the colony planet–the racists had made cross-breeding necessary to survival.

And nonetheless they were the people whom you saw oftenest, did daily business with by visiphone (when a solar storm didn’t make gibberish of their voices and chaos of their faces) or in the flesh, partied with, gossipped and intrigued with, intermarried with.