conjoin
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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conjoins,
present (3rd person singular)
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conjoined,
past participle, past
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conjoining
present participle
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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
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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conjoinsimple
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conjoinssimple
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have conjoinedperfect
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has conjoinedperfect
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am conjoiningprogressive
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are conjoiningprogressive
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is conjoiningprogressive
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have been conjoiningperfect progressive
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has been conjoiningperfect progressive
Past
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conjoinedsimple
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had conjoinedperfect
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was conjoiningprogressive
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were conjoiningprogressive
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had been conjoiningperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of conjoin
1325–75; Middle English conjoigenn < Anglo-French, Middle French conjoign- (stem of conjoindre ) < Latin conjungere. See con-, join
Vocabulary lists containing conjoin
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What the viewers of Titian’s time would have known is that the painting depicts the mythical moment in which the Phoenician and Cretan civilizations began to conjoin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
"Then, if thou dost acknowledge thyself so pampered, I beg thou wilt conjoin to justice its semblance and forgive thy poor servant the penalty of death."
From Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne
His work repeatedly conjoins ancient history with enduring pop style.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
Phosphate conjoins with sugar to form the backbone of DNA, holding in meaningful order the letters of genetic information that would otherwise collapse into alphabet soup.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
The name conjoins the daring mission of the Perseverance rover with the legacy of a luminous writer of intellectually daring novels.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2021
Flynn, with the aid of set designer Milagros Ponce de León and costume designer Wade Laboissonniere, activates the joyfully imaginative intersection of “Into the Woods” where fanciful conjoins with baser human impulses — even cruelty.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2019
Binah conjoins with Hakemah and shines within Him, 763-l.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
Americans and Israelis are conjoined by history, for better or worse, and now see each other as distorted reflections, through a glass darkly, as the King James Bible puts it.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
The hotel, a short walk from world-renowned museums, is formed of conjoined Victorian townhouses with British and Irish flags displayed out front.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
They married in 1954, but it wasn’t until 1963 that the conjoined career of Stiller and Maera took off, with an appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
A parasitic twin is an underdeveloped conjoined twin that relies entirely on the host twin for survival.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
She’s walking so close to Bram, you’d think they were conjoined.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
In our car, an avionics-like black panel stretches across the dash, conjoining the driver’s info and touch-screen interface.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
“They will disperse and form conjoining territories next to their mothers, and so if the animal is not able to disperse further, that can easily cause issues with inbreeding,” Bräutigam said.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2024
Although the film isn’t necessarily similar to Haynes’ more recent work, it hits on something he admires in other filmmakers, namely Alfred Hitchcock: conjoining the subversive with the popular.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Bubbles combine the geometry of perfect spheres with the chaotic behaviors of floating, bursting, conjoining and pressing up against one another.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
And lastly the winter sign was the Water Bearer, the bright Fomalhaut conjoining his rays with the sun's at midwinter.
From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
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