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US
/ˈfɹætɝˌnaɪz/
]
VERB
- be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy
How To Use fraternize In A Sentence
- Lawyers and judges, even in quite large cities, usually know each other quite well and regularly fraternise socially.
- All along the front line soldiers walked spontaneously into no-man's land to fraternise with the enemy.
- The elite wanted to fraternize with the Pakistanis who had accepted Urdu as the national language.
- More numerous than the gentry-become-townsmen were the burgesses who fraternised with the gentry.
- Castro recommended to the 270 Cuban athletes that they "fraternize" with other athletes competing in the Ninth Central American and Caribbean Games CUBAN ATHLETES GOING TO GAMES
- He seemed to assume, for example, if Russia withdrew unilaterally from the first world war, German soldiers would begin to fraternise with their former opponents and would be therefore moved to stop fighting.
- A 20-year veteran of the peace movement, he had learned one of the inviolable laws of the left: thou shalt not fraternize with big business.
- I was never a Mob lawyer, I never fraternized with my clients and I never even went to a club to collect money for my fees.
- The recession has created an atmosphere where disparate groups fraternise in an atmosphere of mutual support.
- Because everybody knows the roman empire fell after they started letting their soldiers fraternize. Think Progress » Conservatives Fearmonger About Repealing DADT: It Will Lead To The Draft And ‘Mortally’ Wound The Military
