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Answer for the clue "Joining forces ", 7 letters:
parting

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Word definitions for parting in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parting \Par"ting\ (p[aum]rt"[i^]ng), n. The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation. ``The parting of the way.'' --Ezek. xxi. 21. A separation; a leave-taking. --Shak. And there were sudden partings, such as ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"action of going away," c.1300, verbal noun from part (v.). As "separation of persons," early 14c.

Usage examples of parting.

Smallweed and a parting salutation to the scornful Judy, strides out of the parlour, clashing imaginary sabres and other metallic appurtenances as he goes.

After fourteen stormy years the two friends, who more than any others were responsible for the launching of the Third Retch, for its terror and its degradation, who though they had often disagreed had stood together in the moments of crisis and defeats and disappointments, had come to a parting of the ways, and the scar-faced, brawling battler for Hitler and Nazism had come to the end of his violent life.

Carrie feel good with her parting statement, Bette added to the heavy guilt that Carrie already felt.

So sure did I feel, that my vision was due merely to some trick of the Yamabooshi, that I actually gloated over my coming triumph in writing to the Bonze that I had been right in answering his sad words of parting with an incredulous smile, as my sister and family were all in good health--happy!

As it died away, heavy footsteps approached and the door opened to reveal a broad man with iron grey hair brilliantined in a side parting and a toothbrush moustache.

With a parting smile, he stepped forward, grasped the doorknob, and thrust himself through to Earth, bringing up his right hand to brake against the wall.

Without a hortatory tone, to which, actually, I have no right, I intend to pronounce my parting words in the tones of an old friend who is listened to with half-condescending, half-impatient attention, if only he does not become excessively long-winded.

Janice recalled the strong, humourless face of the German psychiatrist at their last session and her parting words to them.

She barely acknowledged the greetings and festive wishes from the staff as they cut a swathe through the crowd, the minglers parting like the Red Sea as they moved across the room.

His hand slid down her body to the soft hair of her mons, then further, parting her nether lips to tease her waiting clit.

As a parting gift for the otters who had done so much for her, she left the carcass of a small-horn buck anchored in fairly deep water near the underwater entrance to the den of the mustelids to make it difficult for other predators to rob her friends.

V The second parting from Miss Overmore had been bad enough, but this first parting from Mrs.

The public has so long listened to these funereal solos that if a few of the poets thus impatient to be gone were to go, their departure would perhaps be attended by that resigned speeding which the proverb invokes on behalf of the parting guest.

The blade stayed unroused, its forged length parting air like black smoke, sliced by the pearlescent sheen of cold runes.

When she lay beneath him, her hair fanned across the plaid like a skein of black embroidery silk, he kissed her, parting her lips with his tongue to stroke her own, then nipping at her pouty lower lip.