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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intermingle
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The movie intermingles danger and humor.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intermingle

Intermingle \In`ter*min"gle\, v. t. To mingle or mix together; to intermix.
--Hooker.

Intermingle

Intermingle \In`ter*min"gle\, v. i. To be mixed or incorporated.

Party and faction will intermingle.
--Swift.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intermingle

late 15c., from inter- + mingle. Related: Intermingled; intermingling.

Wiktionary
intermingle

vb. To mix or become mixed together.

WordNet
intermingle

v. combine into one; "blend the nuts and raisins together"; "he blends in with the crowd"; "We don't intermingle much" [syn: blend, intermix, immingle]

Usage examples of "intermingle".

Although the intermingling of various linguistic and cultural groups contributed greatly to the enrichment of Islamic civilization, it also was a source of great tension and contributed to the decay of Abbasid power.

Well, sex, love, and art intermingled when Boomer eased the remodeled Airstream into her apartment house parking lot.

Between the meadows and the foothills, brushland and forest were intermingled.

Strange energistic vortices swirled around the dimensional twist where the two continua intermingled, kinking reality.

It was a fight which continued for almost a year, with politics, finances, regional pride, fundamental ideas and the great drives of the space age intermingled, and in the end a stalemate existed between Earth orbit and lunar orbit.

A happy idea had apparently occurred to the Emperor of China and the Mikado of Japan, for, attended by their intermingled suites, they rode together in a single carriage.

Although the British and Americans landed on different sections of the coast, a close coordination was maintained between upper levels of command, and the two navies got along so well that a more intimate intermingling could be attempted in the next operation.

There were no freestanding buildings, only glowing piles of rubble intermingled with huge boulders made of a different, nonluminous mineral.

Two marines slammed into each other and ran together like two colors on a pallette, their sticky flesh intermingling beyond any hope of separation.

The primitive truths taught by the Redeemer were sooner corrupted, and intermingled and alloyed with fictions than when taught to the first of our race.

The room was panelled, with cornices of heavy carved work, in which flowers and grotesque faces were strangely intermingled, and a row of black-looking portraits stared mournfully at me from the walls.

Creationists were restricted by all manner of arcane regulations in the engineering of insects and birds, lest their inventions should stray to pollute the artwork of other engineers or to intermingle with the more extensive ecosystems of the world at large.

It was alive with swirling color, an intermingling of writhing, prismatic flames and subtle and everchanging shades of darkness, an eddying opalescence that seemed always about to coalesce into a picture, yet never did.

Some monads intermingle and ascend the life cycle from sand and water through the vegetable and animal realms to those higher creatures who possess five senses, a category that includes not only human beings but the gods themselves.

In and around the Sagittarius region the intermingling of nebulæ and galactic star clouds and clusters is particularly remarkable.