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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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... emptiness of the house grew upon me. The corridors and vacant rooms seemed to echo innumerable footsteps, shufflings, the rustle of skirts, and a constant undertone of whispering. When sleep at length overtook me, the breathings and noises, however, passed gently to mingle with the ...
— The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories • Algernon Blackwood

... in their own country was another thing that caused our friends to feel more exclusive and somewhat reluctant to mingle with those of other nationalities. Every mail brought them letters and papers from both North and South, and from their distant standpoint they watched with deep interest and anxiety the course of events fraught with such momentous consequences ...
— Elsie's Womanhood • Martha Finley

... going, pretty Annette? Your little feet you'll surely wet."—L. M. Child. "Metellus, who conquered Macedon, was carried to the funeral pile by his four sons, one of which was the praetor."—Kennett's Roman Ant., p. 332. "That not a soldier which they did not know, should mingle himself among them."— Josephus, Vol. v, p. 170. "The Neuter Gender denotes objects which are neither males nor females."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 37. "And hence it is, that the most important precept, which a rhetorical teacher can inculcate respecting this part of discourse, ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... altitudes, but keep along the terraced glades by the side of olive-shaded streams. The violets, instead of peeping shyly from hedgerows, fall in ripples and cascades over mossy walls among maidenhair and spleen-worts. They are very sweet, and the sound of trickling water seems to mingle with their fragrance in a most delicious harmony. Sound, smell, and hue make up one chord, the sense of which is pure and perfect peace. The country-people are kind, letting us pass everywhere, so that we make our way along their aqueducts ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds

... for a kingdom mingle in this fatal fray, Kinsmen killed and comrades slaughtered,—dear, ...
— Maha-bharata - The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse • Anonymous


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