combined

[ kuhm-bahynd ]

adjective

1. made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
2. taken as a whole or considered together; in the aggregate:

   outselling all other brands combined.

Other Words From

• com·bined·ly [k, uh, m-, bahynd, -lee, -, bahy, -nid-], adverb
• com·binedness noun
• semi·com·bined adjective
• uncom·bined adjective
• well-com·bined adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of combined¹

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English; combine + -ed ²

Example Sentences

The combined cadet-midshipmen choir sings the song in about 75 seconds.

From Washington Post

Together, Hextall and Burke have roughly a half-century of combined NHL front-office experience and have won two Stanley Cups.

From FiveThirtyEight

Add in the fact that Tampa Bay is playing at home, and that teams favored by three points or more in the Super Bowl are a combined 4-10 against the spread since 2002, and it’s time to take the points.

From Washington Post

Since day one, we wanted to design a mobile-first platform that could break into the masses and our combined experience building mass-market consumer products was very critical to launching Djamo.

From TechCrunch

Teams favored by three points or more in the Super Bowl are a combined 31-15 straight up but just 23-23-2 against the spread.

From Washington Post

But while the GoPro is impressive by itself, it has some serious wow factor when combined with a drone.

From The Daily Beast

“It's insane to see what the extreme version of that type of helpless anger combined with mental illness can create,” Cook wrote.

From The Daily Beast

His approach on marriage, combined with solid conservative credentials, could offer up a model of the future of the GOP.

From The Daily Beast

Chicago provides crime reporters and amateur scanner-chasers with more grit and brutality than they can handle combined.

From The Daily Beast

Has the United States really created more jobs under Obama than ‘every other advanced economy combined’?

From The Daily Beast

The friars were exceedingly wroth, and combined to defeat the Generalʼs efforts to come to an understanding with the rebels.

From Project Gutenberg

We would classify these two departments in this way, though in the highest dramatic work elements of both phases are combined.

From Project Gutenberg

It is combined with these consonant elements in order to invite it forward and bring it to a point (figuratively speaking).

From Project Gutenberg

Martinez Camposʼ theme of “political action combined with military force” held no weight.

From Project Gutenberg

Whether this aptitude was combined with the sinuous cunning that is essentially Oriental Nigel did not know.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• connected
• mixed
• united