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combine | interpenetrate |

As a proper noun combine

is (colloquial) london underground.

As a verb interpenetrate is

to penetrate mutually or reciprocally.

combine

English

Verb

(combin)
  • To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
  • * (John Dryden)
    • You with your foes combine , / And seem your own destruction to design.
  • * Sir (Walter Scott)
    • So sweet did harp and voice combine .
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined , including combat.}}
  • To have two or more things or properties that function together.
    • Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.
  • To come together; to unite.
    • two substances that easily combine
  • (card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.
  • (obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • I am combined by a sacred vow.

    Derived terms

    * combination * combinable * combinatory * combined * recombine

    Synonyms

    * fuse * merge * unite

    Antonyms

    * divide * separate * disunite

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A combine harvester
    • We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud.
  • A combination
  • # Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic intentions.
  • The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges.
  • # An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former .

    • interpenetrate

    English

    Verb

    (interpenetrat)
  • To penetrate mutually or reciprocally.
  • To permeate or pervade.
  • * Shelley
    • It interpenetrates my granite mass.
  • * 1843 , '', book 2, ch. 6, ''Monk Samson
    • […] our Religion is not yet a horrible restless Doubt, still less a far horribler composed Cant; but a great heaven-high Unquestionability, encompassing, interpenetrating the whole of Life.
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