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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. examples
To marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group. quotations examples
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, 1993).
2005, Xiangming Chen, “The Greater Southeast China Subregion”, in As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim, Rowman & Littlefield, pages 91–92