conjoin

American  

[kuhn-join] / kənˈdʒɔɪn /

verb (used with or without object)

1. to join together; unite; combine; associate.

2. Grammar. to join as coordinate elements, especially as coordinate clauses.

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conjoin British  

/ kənˈdʒɔɪn /

verb

1. to join or become joined

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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

Example Sentences

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

Pairs of dancers, each grasping a single hand, pull away until they break apart and then, just as quickly, conjoin with a partner’s back leg bent in an attitude position.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 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 so Swift has discovered a place where metaphysical and financial opportunities conjoin — a way to change the past and make money from it.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2021

It lacked, all need, the softening light Which other brows supply: We should conjoin the scathèd trunks Of our humanity, That each leafless spray entwining may Look softer 'gainst the sky.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett