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Definition of 'mingle'

verb

To bring or combine together or with something else; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance" [syn: mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate]

verb

Get involved or mixed-up with; "He was about to mingle in an unpleasant affair"

verb

Be all mixed up or jumbled together; "His words jumbled" [syn: jumble, mingle]

From: GCIDE

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]

From: 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]

From: GCIDE