INTERMINGLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does intermingle mean? 

• INTERMINGLE (verb)
  The verb INTERMINGLE has 1 sense:

1. combine into one

  Familiarity information: INTERMINGLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERMINGLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they intermingle    ... he / she / it intermingles   
Past simple: intermingled   
Past participle: intermingled   
-ing form: intermingling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Combine into one

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

blend; immingle; intermingle; intermix

Context example:

We don't intermingle much

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

amalgamate; commix; mingle; mix; unify (to bring or combine together or with something else)

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

commingle (mix or blend)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

The territories from distinct chromosomes do not appear to overlap, preventing an intermingling of the decondensed chromatin.

(Chromosome Territory, NCI Thesaurus)

These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang, and the tallest trees, as I could judge, appeared to be seven feet high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Simulation and decision neurons are closely intermingled within the amygdala.

(‘Mindreading’ neurons simulate decisions of social partners, University of Cambridge)

A chronic inflammatory disorder that generally occurs in adulthood and is characterized by sterile pustules intermingled with scaly erythemas, vesicles and hyperkeratosis occurring at distinct sites on the palms and soles.

(Palmoplantar Pustulosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A base composed of bonding agents intermingled with active and/or inert ingredient(s), which rapidly hardens into a firm mass upon application.

(Cement Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

An adenocarcinoma of the breast characterized by the presence of two intermingled cellular components: cells with abundant granular, eosinophilic cytoplasm, and cells with abundant cytoplasm containing fine empty vacuoles.

(Apocrine Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

But at other times doubt and alarm intermingled with his hopes; and when he thought of her acknowledged disinclination for privacy and retirement, her decided preference of a London life, what could he expect but a determined rejection? unless it were an acceptance even more to be deprecated, demanding such sacrifices of situation and employment on his side as conscience must forbid.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The bowmen and men-at-arms had broken their ranks and were intermingled with the fishermen and citizens, whose laughing faces and hearty gestures bespoke the weight of care from which this welcome arrival had relieved them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I found the island to be all rocky, only a little intermingled with tufts of grass, and sweet-smelling herbs.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The effect of the whole was a manner so pitying and agitated, and words intermingled with her refusal so expressive of obligation and concern, that to a temper of vanity and hope like Crawford's, the truth, or at least the strength of her indifference, might well be questionable; and he was not so irrational as Fanny considered him, in the professions of persevering, assiduous, and not desponding attachment which closed the interview.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)