BE INTIMATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does be intimate mean? 

• BE INTIMATE (verb)
  The verb BE INTIMATE has 1 sense:

1. have sexual intercourse with

  Familiarity information: BE INTIMATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BE INTIMATE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have sexual intercourse with

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

have it off; sleep with; sleep together; screw; roll in the hay; make out; make love; love; lie with; know; jazz; hump; have sex; bang; have it away; have intercourse; have a go at it; get laid; get it on; fuck; eff; do it; bonk; bed; be intimate

Context example:

Were you ever intimate with this man?

Hypernyms (to "be intimate" is one way to...):

copulate; couple; mate; pair (engage in sexual intercourse)

Verb group:

make out; neck (kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "be intimate"):

have; take (have sex with; archaic use)

fornicate (have sex without being married)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

I do not at all comprehend her reason for wishing to be intimate with me; but if the same circumstances were to happen again, I am sure I should be deceived again.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I have known her from a child, undoubtedly; we have been children and women together; and it is natural to suppose that we should be intimate,—that we should have taken to each other whenever she visited her friends.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Sir John could do no more; but he did not know that any more was required: to be together was, in his opinion, to be intimate, and while his continual schemes for their meeting were effectual, he had not a doubt of their being established friends.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)