intermarry
Americanverb (used without object)
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intermarries,
present (3rd person singular)
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intermarried,
past participle, past
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intermarrying
present participle
verb
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(of different groups, races, religions, creeds, etc) to become connected by marriage
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to marry within one's own family, clan, group, etc
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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intermarrysimple
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intermarriessimple
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have intermarriedperfect
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has intermarriedperfect
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am intermarryingprogressive
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are intermarryingprogressive
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is intermarryingprogressive
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have been intermarryingperfect progressive
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has been intermarryingperfect progressive
Past
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intermarriedsimple
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had intermarriedperfect
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was intermarryingprogressive
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were intermarryingprogressive
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had been intermarryingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of intermarry
Example Sentences
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Arriving Chinese immigrants and tourists are also attracted by the neighborhood’s less expensive hotels, apartments and offices, enabling them to do business, intermarry and study — conveniently near the Chinese Embassy.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
They intermarry, share places of worship, open restaurants and spend countless hours socialising with one another.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2022
Even though the mummies were locals who didn’t intermarry with the migrant herders in nearby mountain valleys, they weren’t culturally isolated.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 27, 2021
The researchers said that over time, as the Bunches continued to intermarry, they became prominent landowners in colonial Virginia and were known as white.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2012
Did the last Greenland Norse starve to death, attempt to sail off, intermarry with Eskimos, or succumb to disease or Eskimo arrows?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
It has been somewhat astonishing to me to find how very slight are the social oscillations traceable in a middle-class family and the families it intermarries with through several centuries.
From The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis
The educated class of foreigners finds its place among them, assimilates American culture, and intermarries in the second generation.
From Society Its Origin and Development by Henry Kalloch Rowe
If a man, having had a child by a woman, afterward intermarries with her, such child is deemed legitimate.
From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Hyacinthe Ringrose
Recently acquired characters, whether physiologic or pathologic, are very liable to disappear when the individual bearing such characters intermarries with another not having the same character.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
U.S. troops and German locals had intermarried and settled down, their children went to local schools and played in the area’s sports clubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
The genetic analysis shows the Xianbei people intermarried with ethnically Han Chinese when they migrated southward into northern China.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024
Royal families commonly intermarried to maintain political alliances, which helps explain how Odenkirk is distantly related to .
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2024
But I have spoken to more than I can count who were treated as though they did not, in fact, belong because they were the product of intermarriage, or because they themselves were intermarried.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2024
The dozen rich families have intermarried so many times that family trees are tangles of roots.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Social circles remain tight, with military families often intermarrying.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2021
“The Coopers are so intermarried—that’s the polite way of putting it—that they have their own genealogist in South Carolina and North Carolina to make sure they’re not intermarrying again,” Mooney told me.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 30, 2019
But socially, the groups are mingling more—and increasingly intermarrying.
From Economist ● Aug. 31, 2017
He and his colleagues speculate that Melanesians arrived in the area 2,800 to 3,000 years ago, intermarrying with the Lapita.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2015
From World War I to Hitler’s rise, the Jews in Germany had been increasingly intermarrying.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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