Mingle
WordNet
verb
(1) To bring or combine together or with something else
"Resourcefully he mingled music and dance"
(2) Get involved or mixed-up with
"He was about to mingle in an unpleasant affair"
(3) Be all mixed up or jumbled together
"His words jumbled"
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Etymology
Middle English mengel from the noun meng, compare Old English mengan. Cognate with Dutch, German mengen. Related to among, mongrel.
Verb
- To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.
- There was... fire mingled with the hail. Ex. ix. 24.
- Across the city yesterday, there was a feeling of bittersweet reunion as streams of humanity converged and mingled at dozens of memorial services. — New York Times
- To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.
- The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands. Ezra ix. 2.
- To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
- A mingled, imperfect virtue. -Henry Rogers.
- : To put together; to join. Shakespeare.
- To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
- [He] proceeded to mingle another draught. -Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- To become mixed or blended.