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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become husband and wife in legal ceremony |
| Synonyms: | ally, associate, become one, bond, catch*, combine, conjoin, conjugate, contract, couple, drop anchor, espouse, get hitched, get married, join, knit, land*, lead to altar, link, match, mate, merge, one, pledge, plight one's troth, promise, relate, settle down, take vows, tie, tie the knot, unify, unite, walk down aisle, wed, yoke |
| Antonyms: | divorce |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | connect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | combine, link |
| Synonyms: | affix, ally, associate, attach, bridge, cohere, come aboard, conjoin, consociate, correlate, couple, equate, fasten, get into, hitch on, hook on, hook up, interface, join, join up with, marry, meld with, network with, plug into, relate, slap on, span, tack on, tag, tag on, tie in, tie in with, unite, wed, yoke |
| Antonyms: | disconnect |
| Main Entry: | couple |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | join two things |
| Synonyms: | bracket, bring together, buckle, clasp, coalesce, cohabit, come together, conjoin, conjugate, connect, copulate, harness, hitch, hook up, link, marry, match, pair, unite, wed, yoke |
| Antonyms: | disconnect, disjoin, divide, separate, unbuckle, uncouple |
| Main Entry: | join |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | unite |
| Synonyms: | accompany, add, adhere, affix, agglutinate, annex, append, assemble, associate, attach, blend, bracket, cement, clamp, clasp, clip, coadunate, coalesce, combine, compound, concrete, conjoin, conjugate, connect, copulate, couple, entwine, fasten, fuse, grapple, hitch on, incorporate, interlace, intermix, juxtapose, knit, leash, link, lock, lump together, marry, mate, melt, mix, pair, put together, slap on, span, splice, stick together, tack on, tag on, tie, tie up, touch, weave, wed, weld, yoke |
| Antonyms: | disjoin, divide, separate |
| Main Entry: | meld |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blend, bring together |
| Synonyms: | amalgamate, associate, compound, dissolve, feather in, fuse, interblend, interface, interfuse, intermingle, marry, merge, mingle, mix, unite |
| Antonyms: | divide, separate |
| Main Entry: | merge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring or come together |
| Synonyms: | absorb, amalgamate, assimilate, be swallowed up, become lost in, become partners, blend, cement, centralize, coalesce, combine, come aboard, compound, conglomerate, consolidate, converge, deal one in, fuse, hitch on, hook up, immerge, incorporate, interface, intermingle, intermix, join, join up, line up, marry, meet, meld, melt into, mingle, mix, network, plug into, pool, slap on, submerge, synthesize, tack on, tag, team up, throw in together, tie in, unite |
| Antonyms: | divide, part, separate |
| Main Entry: | mingle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | physically join |
| Synonyms: | admix, alloy, blend, coalesce, commingle, compound, intermingle, intermix, interweave, make up, marry, meld, merge, mix, unite, wed |
| Antonyms: | disjoin |
| Main Entry: | pair |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make, become a twosome |
| Synonyms: | balance, bracket, combine, couple, join, marry, match, match up, mate, pair off, pair up, put together, team, twin, unite, wed, yoke |
| Antonyms: | divide, separate, sever |
| Main Entry: | splice |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | join, interweave |
| Synonyms: | braid, entwine, graft, hitch, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, knit, marry, mate, mesh, plait, tie, unite, weave, wed, yoke |
| Notes: | a graft is one thing attached to another by insertion or implantation so it becomes part of it; a splice is the joining of two things end-to-end to make a new whole |
| Antonyms: | divide, separate, sever |
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