mingle

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: min=gle

CIDE DICTIONARY

mingle, v. t. [From OE. mengen, AS. mengan; akin to D. & G. mengen, Icel. menga, also to E. among, and possibly to mix. Cf. Among, Mongrel.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "There was . . . fire mingled with the hail."  [1913 Webster]
•  To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.  [1913 Webster]

  "The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands."  [1913 Webster]
•  To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.  [1913 Webster]

  "A mingled, imperfect virtue."  [1913 Webster]
•  To put together; to join.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.  [1913 Webster]

  "[He] proceeded to mingle another draught."  [1913 Webster]

mingle, v. i. 

•  To become mixed or blended.  [1913 Webster]
•  To associate (with certain people); as, he's too highfalutin to mingle with working stiffs.  [PJC]
•  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.  [PJC]

mingle, n. 

 A mixture.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mingle, v.tr. & intr. mix, blend.

Idiom

mingle their etc. tears literary weep together. mingle with go about among.

Derivative

mingler n.

Etymology

ME mengel f. obs. meng f. OE mengan, rel. to AMONG

THESAURUS

mingle

admix, alloy, amalgamate, associate, associate with, assort with, bemingle, blend, chum, chum together, chum with, circulate, clique, clique with, club together, coalesce, combine, commingle, commix, compose, compound, concoct, conglomerate, consort, consort with, emulsify, fellowship, flock together, fraternize, fuse, go, hang around with, hang out with, hash, herd together, hobnob with, homogenize, immingle, immix, integrate, interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, join, join in fellowship, jumble, keep company with, knead, make up, marry, meld, merge, mingle with, mingle-mangle, mix, mix up, mix with, pal, pal up with, pal with, run in couples, run with, scramble, shuffle, socialize, sort with, spend time, stir up, syncretize, take up with, throw together, tie up with, toss together, unite, work

ROGET THESAURUS

mingle

Mixture

VB mix, join, combine, commix, immix, intermix, mix up with, mingle, commingle, intermingle, bemingle, shuffle, pound together, hash up, stir up, knead, brew, impregnate with, interlard, intertwine, interweave, associate with, miscegenate, be mixed, get among, be entangled with, instill, imbue, infuse, suffuse, transfuse, infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross, alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.