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Fraternize   /frˈætərnˌaɪz/   Listen
Fraternize

verb
(past & past part. fraternized; pres. part. fraternizing)
1.
Be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy.  Synonym: fraternise.






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"Fraternize" Quotes from Famous Books



... local custom fell this night into abeyance. Years out of mind the adherents of the leading political parties had mingled sociably before a non-partisan bulletin board in the courthouse, much as hostile camps fraternize in the truce forerunning peace. But the old, simpler order of things had suffered more wrenches than one in this acrid congressional campaign, and the warring factions could unite only on the hibernian proposition that union was impossible. One party, ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther

... camp, and in broken, barrack-room English strove to fraternize with them; offered them pipes of tobacco and stood them treat at the canteen. But the Fore and Aft, not knowing much of the nature of the Gurkhas, treated them as they would treat any other "niggers," ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... society can play this part without setting up a wave of enthusiasm in itself and among the masses, a wave of feeling wherein it would fraternize and commingle with society in general, and would feel and be recognized as society's general representative, a wave of enthusiasm wherein its claims and rights would be in truth the claims and rights ...
— Selected Essays • Karl Marx



Words linked to "Fraternize" :   fraternization, socialise, socialize, fraternity, fraternise



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