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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Eventually Brooks, now in the same skirt, makes their way to him and they conjoin for an extended spine duet.
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024
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
As this was our first trip to Greece, we sought the benefit of guides to help separate myths from reality, or maybe conjoin them.
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2021
These duties, also, according to mutual aid, conjoin the two into a one, and at the same time constitute one house.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel
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