intermingle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- interminglement noun
- unintermingled adjective
Etymology
Origin of intermingle
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; inter-, mingle
Example Sentences
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Many Alexandrians are feeling the loss, intermingled with their other most treasured heritage.
From Barron's
Shots of children too absorbed in their tablets to play with each other intermingle with classic bickering between Tom Hanks‘ Woody and Tim Allen‘s Buzz Lightyear.
From Salon
There are more than 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria, which is roughly divided into a mainly Muslim north, a largely Christian south, with intermingling in the middle.
From BBC
He intermingles the bones of infected and non-infected alike, he says, “because they are alike.”
From Salon
In so doing, we may one day generate forests of trees whose ancestry does not intermingle with that of the species generated by the historic evolutionary process.
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