mingle Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb to bring or combine together or with something else
amalgamate; mix; unify; commix.
- resourcefully he mingled music and dance
verb get involved or mixed-up with
- He was about to mingle in an unpleasant affair
verb be all mixed up or jumbled together
jumble.
- His words jumbled

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

imperfect & past participle Mingled ; present participle & verbal noun Mingling

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. Ex. ix. 24.
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. Ezra ix. 2.
To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
A mingled, imperfect virtue. Rogers.
To put together; to join. Obs. Shak.
To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
[He] proceeded to mingle another draught. Hawthorne.