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fraternizing

verb , present participle of fraternize

Synonyms and Antonyms of fraternizing

1 to come or be together as friends

don't fraternize just with people of the same race, religion, or social background

Synonyms of fraternizing

associating, chumming, companying, consociating, consorting, hanging (around or out), hobnobbing, hooking up, messing around, palling (around), running, sorting, traveling (or travelling)

Words Related to fraternizing

affiliating, allying, attaching, banding, bonding, clubbing, collaborating, colluding, confederating, conjoining, connecting, cooperating, coupling, ganging, getting along, getting on, grouping, interrelating, joining, knotting, leaguing, linking, mingling, mixing, rallying, relating, siding, socializing, teaming, tying (or tieing), wedding

befriending, friending

Phrases Synonymous with fraternizing

being friends with, falling in with, keeping company (with), rubbing elbows (with) or rubbing shoulders (with) , taking up with

Near Antonyms of fraternizing

avoiding, cold-shouldering, shunning, snubbing

alienating, estranging

breaking up, disbanding, dispersing, splitting (up)

disjoining, dissociating, disuniting, divorcing, severing, splitting, sundering

2 to take part in social activities

a group of kids fraternizing together after school every day

Synonyms of fraternizing

associating, going out, hobnobbing, mingling, mixing, socializing, stepping out

Words Related to fraternizing

carousing, partying, reveling (or revelling)

Phrases Synonymous with fraternizing

rubbing elbows (or rubbing shoulders)

Near Antonyms of fraternizing

avoiding, eschewing, shunning

slighting, snubbing

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