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
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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
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
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
Pairs of dancers, each grasping a single hand, pull away until they break apart and then, just as quickly, conjoin with a partner’s back leg bent in an attitude position.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
And so Swift has discovered a place where metaphysical and financial opportunities conjoin — a way to change the past and make money from it.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2021
When they thus conjoin, she conceives, and the out-flow is Truth.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
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
It conjoins elements, weaves meaning, deduces the shape of the thing.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2018
A full mid-career survey of the Los Angeles painter comes 15 years after the museum’s bracing inaugural introduction of her relentlessly hybridized work, which conjoins craft, digital mutation, avant-garde abstraction and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
Conjugial love conjoins two souls, and thence two minds into a one.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel
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 added: "We witness first-hand the medical challenges that these children and their families endure, which makes the portrayal of conjoined twins as a form of entertainment or spectacle especially problematic."
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
Her critiques of Israel have been conjoined with some eyebrow-raising comments about the Holocaust.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025
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
As once a double shadow had leapt up against a mountainside, now a similarly conjoined shadow moved across the back porch of the house on Hurlbut.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
This is evidenced in the unification and conjoining of various nations which had formerly been hostile to each other—such as the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Syrians, Chaldeans and Assyrians.
From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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