Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To become blended.
  • intransitive verb To cause to blend together; mix.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To mix, to blend.
  • verb intransitive To become mixed or blended.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb mix or blend
  • verb mix together different elements

Etymologies

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co- +‎ mingle, with ‘m’ doubled to clarify pronunciation.

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Examples

  • A theocratic future in which men and women never commingle is the basis of "Pervert."

    ccfinlay: New goal: Become frequently memorable ccfinlay 2005

  • Generally, when you have a corporate entity, you are concerned about "piercing the corporate veil" when you "commingle" personal and corporate funds -- the result of which would be to render certain insiders personally liable for the corporation's debts.

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  • Larry Mantello hopes that these new works ... create imaginary places where fantasies can commingle with feelings of loss and disappointment.

    Bill Bush: Sadness Just Below the Surface: This Artweek.LA (February 21-27) Bill Bush 2011

  • Out the living room window and even sometimes in the home, chickens, landscape and the art commingle.

    Gabrielle Selz: The Egg, Inside and Out Gabrielle Selz 2011

  • Larry Mantello hopes that these new works ... create imaginary places where fantasies can commingle with feelings of loss and disappointment.

    Bill Bush: Sadness Just Below the Surface: This Artweek.LA (February 21-27) Bill Bush 2011

  • Or a place in which the fanciful is allowed to commingle with reality.

    words, words | clusterflock 2009

  • That will allow it to commingle its aircraft and crews and follow a single regime for maintenance and operations.

    United Continental Aligns Services Susan Carey 2011

  • Her work reflects that background: her unfussy interiors—suffused with a serene, Far Eastern vibe—commingle antiques with bold contemporary art.

    Terms of Adornment Jen Renzi 2011

  • I never got into the new stuff, the GF was a Storyteller in the Cam, and had bought me a membership to try and get me to try the LARP of the new world. while the settings commingle better they feel stale to me, and I never could get into them

    White Wolf – Dead Yet? « Geek Related 2009

  • This all changed irrevocably after the storm allowed those riders and their "steeds" to run from the grounds and off up into the high hills of Taconic where the Taconics in a dense tangle commingle with the mounts of Graylock and Bash Bish.

    Perquampi Andrew Edwards 2011

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  • There is a still more pleasant,

    A cosier converse still,

    When, all the guests departed,

    Close comrades talk their fill.

    Beside our smouldering fire

    We muse and wonder late;

    Commingling household gossip

    With talk of gods and fate.

    - Sarah N. Cleghorn, 'Portrait of a Lady'.

    September 21, 2009