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fraternizes

fraternizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fraternize.

Meaning of fraternize

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.

Questions about fraternizes

What is fraternizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fraternizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fraternize.

Words near fraternizes in the dictionary

  1. fraternizations
  2. fraternize
  3. fraternized
  4. fraternizer
  5. fraternizers
  6. fraternizes
  7. fraternizing
  8. fraters
  9. fratery
  10. frathole
  11. fratholes

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