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interjoin

verb

Etymology

From inter- + join.

  1. derived from *yewg-✻ — “to join, unite”
  2. derived from iungō — “join, yoke”
  3. derived from joindre
  4. inherited from joinen
  5. prefixed as interjoin — “inter + join”

Definitions

  1. To interconnect two sets.

  2. To join mutually

    To join mutually; to unite.

    • […] so, fellest foes, Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep, To take the one the other, by some chance, Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends And interjoin their issues.
    • The Kuzzauk salutation is made, by interjoining the four hands.

  3. To say by way of interruption, to interject.

    • “Oh! you can have no idea of its gaiety,” returned Frances; “and such a quantity of people.” “A number of persons, and a quantity of goods,” interjoined Miss Colville.
    • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone, Chapter 5, pp. 26-27, “Perhaps I feared to make Alphonse jealous,” she interjoined, with excessive naïveté. That made them all laugh.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA