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stepfamily
[ step-fam-uh-lee, -fam-lee ]
noun
- a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
Word History and Origins
Origin of stepfamily1
Example Sentences
But Bran doesn’t desire revenge against her stepfamily.
My parents divorced when I was little and, as a kid, it bothered me that when I went to my father’s house, we had only grape jelly and white bread, presumably what my stepfamily preferred.
I thought it sounded like a fun idea — I don’t know my stepfamily well since my mother just got married to their father a year ago, but they’re very nice and I’d like to get to know them better.
More importantly, it is an active choice and a deliberate non-reaction to her stepfamily’s cruelty, but it still has to be paired with more complex, scary actions before it’s effective in getting what she wants.
A sheriff’s investigator testified that Mary Crocker was starved, beaten and kept bound and naked in a dog crate as punishment by her father and stepfamily before she died.
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