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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fraternise .
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Examples
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"fraternised" at the Delhi _Hartal_ in attempts to compel its observance by violence which obliged the authorities to use forcible methods of repression, and of the five rioters who were killed two were Mahomedans.
India, Old and New Valentine Chirol 1890
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Diplomats have always fraternised to some extent with "the enemy" and journalists, for their part, have always had opinions about the things they cover.
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The two sides even fraternised when breaks in combat allowed it the famous Christmas Day football match, having patriotic sing-offs from opposing trenches, assisting one another in recovering the dead and wounded.
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He and his wife, Chou Meng, fraternised with the Khmer Rouge guards over the walls.
Cambodia: Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman: Averaging Wrong Answers 2008
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But instead of the clerk there came the master, with whom the captain fraternised on the spot to an extent that utterly confounded him.
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But instead of the clerk there came the master, with whom the captain fraternised on the spot to an extent that utterly confounded him.
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After this battle the soldiers came together of their own accord, and freely fraternised with the troops of Thrasylus.
Hellenica 2007
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It was during these truces that men from both sides fraternised, swapping rations.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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It was during these truces that men from both sides fraternised, swapping rations.
At My Table 2006
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Hall; yet, it appeared, she found none amongst them very genial: she fraternised with none of them, to use her own words.
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