mingle

Verb
Synonyms: mixcommixunifyamalgamatejumble

WordNet 3.0

Verb (3)

  1. to bring or combine together or with something else“resourcefully he mingled music and dance”Synonyms: mixcommixunifyamalgamate
  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”Synonyms: jumble
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Mingle \Min"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mingling.] [From OE. mengen, AS. mengan; akin to D. & G. mengen, Icel. menga, also to E. among, and possibly to mix. Cf. Among, Mongrel.] [1913 Webster]

1.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. [1913 Webster]

There was . . . fire mingled with the hail.— Ex. ix. 24.[1913 Webster]

2.To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry. [1913 Webster]

The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands.— Ezra ix. 2.[1913 Webster]

3.To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. [1913 Webster]

A mingled, imperfect virtue.— Rogers.[1913 Webster]

4.To put together; to join. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

5.To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. [1913 Webster]

[He] proceeded to mingle another draught.— Hawthorne.[1913 Webster]
Mingle \Min"gle\, v. i.

1.To become mixed or blended. [1913 Webster]

2.To associate (with certain people); as, he's too highfalutin to mingle with working stiffs. [PJC]

3.To move (among other people); -- of people; as, the president left his car to mingle with the crowd; a host at a a party should mingle with his guests. [PJC]

Mingle \Min"gle\, n. A mixture. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
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