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intermarry

/in-ter-mar-ee/US // ˌɪn tərˈmær i //UK // (ˌɪntəˈmærɪ) //

通婚,互通

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    in·ter·mar·ried, in·ter·mar·ry·ing.

    • : to become connected by marriage, as two families, tribes, castes, or religions.
    • : to marry within one's family.
    • : to marry outside one's religion, ethnic group, etc.
    • : to marry.

Examples

  • In both countries, Indigenous children were encouraged to intermarry with other communities when they grew up — and were at times even paid if they did so.

  • Everyone understood that people of different races could intermarry, in principle.

  • The subtext is that each of us is responsible for all of us, and if we intermarry, we risk disappearing completely.

  • It is impossible for a person of one caste to be received into another, or to intermarry with any one belonging to it.

  • Kinsmen were required to intermarry, and in case of refusal the near relative was treated with the utmost public indignity.

  • The Jews never intermarry with other races and form a distinct society of their own.

  • Neither did they always intermarry, though they do now; their offspring being called Mookh, or descendants.

  • Persons of even the remotest degree of relationship are forbidden to intermarry.