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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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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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
Hollywood Forever also lets you choose to conjoin ashes with the roots of a tree, to be planted in their Ancestral Forest Project.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2023
And to achieve the complex assemblage of rhyme, musical style, narrative playfulness, dance and emotional effect that conjoin in a number like “Satisfied.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2018
The man noted for his unstoppable resilience, pervasive optimism and uncompromising personal ethos was not able to conjoin forces with the marvels of modern medicine and defeat the insidious enemy of brain cancer.
From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2018
These subjects are men, who are able as of themselves to elevate and conjoin themselves.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John
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