conjoin
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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to join together; unite; combine; associate.
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Grammar. to join as coordinate elements, especially as coordinate clauses.
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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has conjoinedperfect 3rd person singular
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have conjoinedperfect
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have been conjoiningperfect progressive
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conjoinssingular 3rd person
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are conjoiningprogressive
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is conjoiningprogressive 3rd person singular
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am conjoiningprogressive 1st person singular
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has been conjoiningperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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conjoiningparticiple
Past
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had conjoinedperfect
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were conjoiningprogressive plural
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had been conjoiningperfect progressive
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conjoinedparticiple
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conjoinedsimple
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was conjoiningprogressive singular
Future
Etymology
Origin of conjoin
1325–75; Middle English conjoigenn < Anglo-French, Middle French conjoign- (stem of conjoindre ) < Latin conjungere. See con-, join
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Example Sentences
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It’s only in their periods of truce, when their differing ambitions conjoin, that things move forward.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025
Eventually Brooks, now in the same skirt, makes their way to him and they conjoin for an extended spine duet.
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024
The landscape’s clarity sliced through my memories of over-built New Jersey, slicing down to the mental bedrock beneath — a primary place of understanding where memory and concept conjoin.
From Salon • May 27, 2024
In the phrases that follow, his young children come shuffling toward his bedroom, and in addition to obsolescing the alarm clock, they’re also here to deliver a little lesson about how reality and imagination conjoin.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2022
Because the names of finite things and their relations are disjoined, it doesn't follow that the realities named need a deus ex machina from on high to conjoin them.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William
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