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
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
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
His work repeatedly conjoins ancient history with enduring pop style.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
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
The wife conjoins herself with those things which constitute the man's will.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
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
One profile, claiming to be conjoined twins, has about 400,000 followers, despite only joining Instagram in December 2025.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 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
He also claimed that in 2002 he helped bring conjoined newborns from Guatemala to Los Angeles, where they underwent an incredibly complicated, highly publicized surgery.
From Slate ● May 29, 2024
Finally, where was the centre of gravity of the conjoined spheres of earth and water?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
"Have we not known in other countries how a left-handed marriage might subsist betwixt persons of differing degree?—ay, and be no hindrance to prevent the husband from conjoining himself afterwards with a more suitable partner?"
From Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
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