conjoin

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con·join /kənˈdʒɔɪn/ verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT] formal

TOGETHERto join together, or to make things or people do this （使）结合；（使）联合；（使）连接

Examples from the Corpus

conjoin• All those railway sleepers we'd unloaded now formed a substantial complex of enclosures and conjoining gates.• The three are conjoined most deeply by the child first known as Little Panda, and then called Loyalty.• This was especially the case when pragmatism was conjoined to a legal positivist outlook.• Third, his anxieties about homosexuality were conjoined with class antagonism.

Origin conjoin

(1300-1400) Old French conjoindre, from Latin conjungere, from com- ( → COM-) + jungere “to join”

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Corpus

BNC: 36178 COCA: 22133

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