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Mingle   /mˈɪŋgəl/   Listen
verb
Mingle  v. t.  (past & past part. mingled; pres. part. mingling)  
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. "There was... fire mingled with the hail."
2.
To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry. "The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands."
3.
To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. "A mingled, imperfect virtue."
4.
To put together; to join. (Obs.)
5.
To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. "(He) proceeded to mingle another draught."


Mingle  v. i.  
1.
To become mixed or blended.
2.
To associate (with certain people); as, he's too highfalutin to mingle with working stiffs.
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.


noun
Mingle  n.  A mixture. (Obs.)





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"Mingle" Quotes from Famous Books



... shall mark my desperate path. My wounds are fatal, but they shall bleed inwardly; only upon the battle-field will I lie down to die. Amid the roar of cannon I shall not be heard; I dare call your name with the last sigh which bursts from my icy lips; my last words of love will mingle with the convulsive groans of the dying. Flee, then! flee from wretchedness and despair. May God bless ...
— Berlin and Sans-Souci • Louise Muhlbach
... wonted cheerfulness. The procession halted upon the wharf, where the company was to embark on a steamer for Fort Warren. As the boat which was to convey them to the fort had not yet arrived, the men were permitted to mingle with their friends on the wharf, and, of course, Tom immediately sought out his brother. He found him engaged in a spirited conversation ...
— The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army - A Story of the Great Rebellion • Oliver Optic
... leaving Philadelphia, we passed a solitary sentry keeping guard over a short railroad bridge. It was the first evidence that we were approaching the perilous borders, the marches where the North and the South mingle their angry hosts, where the extremes of our so-called civilization meet in conflict, and the fierce slave-driver of the Lower Mississippi stares into the stern eyes of the forest-feller from the banks ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... vanquished and the ways of Allah are justified to man. They are a panorama which remains ken-speckle upon the mental retina. They form a phantasmagoria in which archangels and angels, devils and goblins, men of air, of fire, of water, naturally mingle with men of earth; where flying horses and talking fishes are utterly realistic: where King and Prince meet fisherman and pauper, lamia and cannibal; where citizen jostles Badawi, eunuch meets knight; the Kazi hob-nobs with the thief; the ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... the soul, and the senses blended; The Springtime lost in the glow of the sun, And two lives rushing, as God intended, To meet and mingle as one. ...
— Poems of Optimism • Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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