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
Vocabulary lists containing conjoin
Example Sentences
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It’s only in their periods of truce, when their differing ambitions conjoin, that things move forward.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025
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
It’s almost as if the mind and body conjoin in a spiritual melding that manifests as a feeling: sensation woven into silken motion.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2023
In the phrases that follow, his young children come shuffling toward his bedroom, and in addition to obsolescing the alarm clock, they’re also here to deliver a little lesson about how reality and imagination conjoin.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2022
When the planets Saturn and Mercury conjoin, the lead has to be melted and the mercury added.
From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Taylor, Benjamin
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