COMMINGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commingle mean? 

• COMMINGLE (verb)
  The verb COMMINGLE has 2 senses:

1. mix or blend

2. mix together different elements

  Familiarity information: COMMINGLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMINGLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they commingle    ... he / she / it commingles   
Past simple: commingled   
Past participle: commingled   
-ing form: commingling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mix or blend

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

His book commingles sarcasm and sadness

Hypernyms (to "commingle" is one way to...):

blend; immingle; intermingle; intermix (combine into one)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mix together different elements

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

blend; coalesce; combine; commingle; conflate; flux; fuse; immix; meld; merge; mix

Context example:

The colors blend well

Hypernyms (to "commingle" is one way to...):

change integrity (change in physical make-up)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "commingle"):

gauge (mix in specific proportions)

absorb (cause to become one with)

meld; melt (lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually)

blend in; mix in (cause (something) to be mixed with (something else))

accrete (grow together (of plants and organs))

conjugate (unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds)

admix (mix or blend)

alloy (make an alloy of)

syncretise; syncretize (become fused)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

It moved with commingled mistrust and daring, cautiously observing the men, its attention fixed on the dogs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The known and the unknown were commingled in the dream-pageant that thronged his vision.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Every movement advertised commingled threatening and overture of friendliness.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Our ashes, at a future period, will probably be found commingled in the cemetery attached to a venerable pile, for which the spot to which I refer has acquired a reputation, shall I say from China to Peru?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)