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  • verb To mate with a member of another species or group.

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Examples

  • "You come here and intermate that any of my family's thieves, do you?" the angry man roared.

    Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd

  • But what I wants to intermate to you, will explain all dis difficulty; and it do show de raal super'ority of a coloured man over de white poperlation.

    Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • In 2008 there were 14. 2million single people in the UK and Matt Lovett noticed a gap in the dating websites market using modern technology to give singles a more intermate way of contacting each other in real time.

    SourceWire Press Release Wire 2009

  • An 'I'm proud to say, bretherin, that after fifty odd years of intermate acquantance with our soon-to-be-deceased brother, you cu'd rely on him tellin' the truth in all things except "--

    The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

  • "Don't ye intermate an 'insinerate; for if ye do, I kin fling out some insinerations likewise.

    Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret Alice B. Emerson

  • All that HER rubbin 'up ag'in' them seams has amounted to is ter git herself so smoothed down that she don't never dare ter say her soul's her own, most generally, -- anyhow, not if he happens ter intermate it belongs ter anybody else! "

    Just David 1916

  • All that HER rubbin 'up ag'in' them seams has amounted to is ter git herself so smoothed down that she don't never dare ter say her soul's her own, most generally, -- anyhow, not if he happens ter intermate it belongs ter anybody else! "

    Just David 1894

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