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Blend

To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.

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Verb group 4

Fit 84% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Fit 84% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Go 84% connected

Gone.

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Go 84% connected

Gone.

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Manner of action 8

Absorb 76% connected

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Accrete 76% connected

To grow together.

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Admix 76% connected

To mingle with something else; to mix.

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Alloy 76% connected

Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Commingle 76% connected

To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.

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Conjugate 76% connected

United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.

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Gauge 76% connected

To measure or determine with a gauge.

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Melt 76% connected

See 2d Milt.

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Accord 76% connected

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.

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Agree 76% connected

In good part; kindly.

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Amalgamate 76% connected

To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.

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Coinage 76% connected

The act or process of converting metal into money.

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Combination 76% connected

The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.

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Combining 76% connected

of Combine

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Commix 76% connected

To mix or mingle together; to blend.

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Compounding 76% connected

of Compound

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Concord 76% connected

A state of agreement; harmony; union.

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Consort 76% connected

One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.

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Harmonize 76% connected

To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.

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Mingle 76% connected

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…

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Mix 76% connected

To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or b…

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Mixture 76% connected

The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.

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Neologism 76% connected

The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense.

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Neology 76% connected

The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarkable instance of…

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Unify 76% connected

To cause to be one; to make into a unit; to unite; to view as one.

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Narrower term 3

Confluence 76% connected

The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.

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Conflux 76% connected

A flowing together; a meeting of currents.

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Merging 76% connected

of Merge

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Derivationally related 2

Blender 74% connected

One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Blender 74% connected

One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.

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Synonym 15

Blending 92% connected

of Blend

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Coalesce 92% connected

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Combine 92% connected

To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical u…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Commingle 92% connected

To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Conflate 92% connected

To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Flux 92% connected

The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fuse 92% connected

To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Go 92% connected

Gone.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Immingle 92% connected

To mingle; to mix; to unite; to blend.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Immix 92% connected

To mix; to mingle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Intermingle 92% connected

To mingle or mix together; to intermix.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Intermix 92% connected

To mix together; to intermingle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Merge 92% connected

To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mix 92% connected

To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or b…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Portmanteau 92% connected

A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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