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| add |
to combine (something) with something else, often to increase the quantity of the latter, or to improve it or make it more complete. [1/5 definitions] |
| affinity |
a chemical attraction or force that causes certain elements to combine with certain others. [1/5 definitions] |
| aggregate |
to combine or unite into a mass or whole. [1/6 definitions] |
| alcoholize |
to saturate, combine, or treat with alcohol. [1/2 definitions] |
| amalgamate |
to combine or blend into a single unit. [2/4 definitions] |
| ammoniate |
to treat, combine, or mix with ammonia. [1/2 definitions] |
| blend |
to combine (two or more components) so thoroughly as to be unrecognizable in the resulting mixture. [1/9 definitions] |
| brandy |
to flavor, combine, or preserve with brandy. [1/2 definitions] |
| carbonize |
to treat, coat, or combine with carbon. [1/2 definitions] |
| carburet |
to combine, mix, or charge with carbons or hydrocarbons, so as to increase the potential fuel energy. |
| chemistry |
the science that studies the structures, functions, transformations, and interactions of basic elements, as, for example, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and sodium, as well as complex substances that combine basic elements. [1/4 definitions] |
| chlorinate |
to combine or treat with chlorine. [1/2 definitions] |
| collocation |
in linguistics, the tendency of certain words to occur together in speech or writing with more frequency than chance would predict, or the particular ways that words tend to combine with each other within a particular language. [1/2 definitions] |
| compose |
to form or combine into a whole. [1/6 definitions] |
| compound1 |
to combine or mix. [1/12 definitions] |
| conflate |
to combine (two or more things) into one; fuse; meld. |
| confuse |
to combine in a disordered, unclear way; fail to distinguish between or among. [1/3 definitions] |
| conjoin |
to combine for a common purpose. |
| consolidate |
to combine into a whole or mass; unify. [1/3 definitions] |
| Creole |
(l.c.) a mixed language developed when two groups having different languages, after an extensive period of time and interaction, combine the vocabulary, grammar, and usage of the two languages into a third dialect in which one of the first is usu. dominant. [1/6 definitions] |
| fluorinate |
to treat, combine, or inject with fluorine. [1/2 definitions] |
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