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fraternize

UK/ˈfɹætənaɪz//ˈfɹætɚnaɪz/

fraternize verb: to associate with others in a brotherly or friendly manner.

Verb

fraternize (third-person singular simple present fraternizes, present participle fraternizing, simple past and past participle fraternized)

  1. (intransitive) To associate with others in a brotherly or friendly manner.
  2. (intransitive) To associate as friends with an enemy, in violation of duty.
    • Now in this world it is never wise to meddle with such things. It's better to leave them as they are. No one ever had any good come to him from fraternizing with too great familiarity with the unknown; and it's a very good thing that the children from The Other Side are as shy as they are, as Alice...1920, Mary Heaton Vorse, Growing Up
  3. (intransitive) To socialize in confidentiality.
  4. (intransitive) To have an intimate or sexual relationship with a forbidden party.

fraternize meaning in Malayalam

fraternize in Malayalam

socialize, associate, mix
സഹോദരെെക്യമായി നടക്കുക, സഹോദരബന്ധം സ്ഥാപിക്കുക, കൂട്ടുകൂടുക, സാഹോദര്യം സ്ഥാപിക്കുക, ഒത്തുപ്രവർത്തിക്കുക, കൂടിച്ചെയ്യുക

Forms of fraternize

third-person singular presentfraternizes
present participlefraternizing
past participlefraternized
pastfraternized
alternative formfraternise

Origin of fraternize

PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr From French fraterniser.

Words formed from fraternize

Questions about fraternize

What does fraternize mean?
Fraternize means to associate with others in a brotherly or friendly manner.
What is fraternize in Malayalam?
Fraternize in Malayalam is സഹോദരെെക്യമായി നടക്കുക, സഹോദരബന്ധം സ്ഥാപിക്കുക, കൂട്ടുകൂടുക. See Fraternize meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is fraternize?
Fraternize is a verb.
How do you pronounce fraternize?
Fraternize is pronounced /ˈfɹætənaɪz/ (UK).
What is the past tense of fraternize?
The past tense of fraternize is fraternized.

Words near fraternize in the dictionary

  1. fraternity
  2. fraternitylike
  3. fraternizable
  4. fraternization
  5. fraternizations
  6. fraternize
  7. fraternized
  8. fraternizer
  9. fraternizers
  10. fraternizes
  11. fraternizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fraternize (page history and authors); fraternize (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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