Fraternize
['frætənaɪz] or ['frætɚnaɪz]
Definition
(verb.) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy.
Typist: Ursula--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.
(v. t.) To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Sympathize, harmonize, consort, coalesce, concur, associate (as brothers), COTTON, make common cause, HITCH HORSES TOGETHER.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sympathize, consort, co-operate, associate_with
ANT:Renounce, abjure, forswear
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Examples
- Our soldiers were no sooner inside the lines than the two armies began to fraternize. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As had been the case on the Rio Grande, the people who remained at their homes fraternized with the Yankees in the pleasantest manner. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The men of the two armies fraternized as if they had been fighting for the same cause. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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