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
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
It’s almost as if the mind and body conjoin in a spiritual melding that manifests as a feeling: sensation woven into silken motion.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
Never a house like this such loves as these hath united, 335Never did love conjoin by such-like covenant lovers, As th'according tie Thetis deigned in concert wi' Peleus.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
Parabiosis conjoins an entire organ system, whereas plasma infusion is just one element, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2019
It conjoins elements, weaves meaning, deduces the shape of the thing.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2018
From all this it is plain that it is by those two faculties that the Lord conjoins Himself to man and causes the man to be reciprocally conjoined.
From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by William F. Wunsch
The conjoined entrance into the NBA of Bird and Magic in 1979 went a long way toward saving a league in free fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 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
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
The kingdom of Kanem-Bornu was less a kingdom than the conjoining of two city- states, Kanem and Bornu.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
The Lord flows into the life's love of the angels, and they receive Him in wisdom, thus in turn conjoining themselves with Him.
From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by William F. Wunsch
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