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
- conjoiner noun
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
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
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
Thought will bring us spiritually near, and affection conjoin us, even though no sense of the body give token of proximity.
From The Home Mission by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
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