intermingle

[ in-ter-ming-guhl ]

verb (used with or without object)

, in·ter·min·gled, in·ter·min·gling.

1. to mingle, one with another; intermix.

intermingle

/ ˌɪntəˈmɪŋɡəl /

verb

1. to mix or cause to mix or mingle together

Other Words From

• inter·mingle·ment noun
• unin·ter·mingled adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of intermingle¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; inter-, mingle

Example Sentences

With children and adults frequently intermingling in virtual spaces, maintaining these users’ safety and priority is more important than ever.

From Digiday

We also heard from some Americans who were now completely rethinking how they personally identified due to the way they saw race and politics intermingle in society today.

From FiveThirtyEight

To muddy the question of how politics and the pandemic intermingle, he then points to the current population-adjusted death toll from the virus, showing that two blue states, New Jersey and New York, have been hit hardest.

From Washington Post

Here, more than a million acres of private and state lands intermingle with the public lands, and this close relationship has brought out sharp contrasts in beliefs about how the grassland—and public lands in general—should be managed.

From Popular-Science

Like the Neanderthals, they are an early branch off the lineage that produced modern humans and later intermingled with modern humans.

From Ars Technica

I was raised in a conservative home where his books let my active imagination intermingle with my budding faith.

From The Daily Beast

In a world where time does not exist, and facts intermingle with fiction, he finds he remains the detective he was.

From The Daily Beast

At the end of four weeks the two sets of girls lined up on opposite sides of the room, utterly refusing to intermingle.

From Project Gutenberg

It may just possibly be found, without certificate, however, in those muddled caverns where the excluded intermingle.

From Project Gutenberg

The English intermingle in their decoration, colours very finely blended; nor do they find any transition too delicate.

From Project Gutenberg

I notice that the trees in the swamp are rather close together, and the limbs intermingle.

From Project Gutenberg

They overlap and intermingle, like a gradation of colours, but the characteristics of each are perfectly distinct.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• interlace
• interweave