intermarrying

intermarrying is the present participle and gerund of intermarry.

Meaning of intermarry

intermarry (third-person singular simple present intermarries, present participle intermarrying, simple past and past participle intermarried)

To marry a member of another group, social stratum, or religion.
- Mary was Catholic and Ron was Jewish, but they decided that it was acceptable to intermarry.
To marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group.
- Mainland China and Taiwan do not border each other by land; they face each other across a 140-km-wide ocean strait. Taiwan-held Dadan Island sits 2 km away from Xiamen. Xiamenese can use binoculars to observe their kinfolk on Dadan Island, with whom they have traditionally intermarried (Mellor...2005, Xiangming Chen, “The Greater Southeast China Subregion”, in As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 91–92
Synonyms:

intramarry

intermarrying (plural intermarryings)

An intermarriage.
- After that there were marryings and intermarryings, the way there are, and Kredindale gets related to half the earls of the North.2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Crown of Dalemark, page 116

plural	intermarryings

What does intermarrying mean?: Intermarrying means an intermarriage.
What is intermarrying the present participle and gerund of?: Intermarrying is the present participle and gerund of intermarry.
What part of speech is intermarrying?: Intermarrying is a noun.
What is the plural of intermarrying?: The plural of intermarrying is intermarryings.

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