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in·ter·mix

 (ĭn′tər-mĭks′)
tr. & intr.v. in·ter·mixed, in·ter·mix·ing, in·ter·mix·es
To mix or become mixed together.

[Back-formation from obsolete intermixt, from Latin intermixtus, past participle of intermiscēre, to mix together : inter-, inter- + miscēre, to mix; see mix.]
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intermix

(ˌɪntəˈmɪks)
vb
1. (tr) to mix (ingredients, liquids, etc) together
2. (intr) to become or have the capacity to become combined, joined, etc
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in•ter•mix

(ˌɪn tərˈmɪks)

v.t., v.i. -mixed, -mix•ing.
to mix together; intermingle.
[1555–65; back formation from intermixt < Latin intermixtus, past participle of intermiscēre to intermingle]
in`ter•mix′a•ble, adj.
in`ter•mix′ed•ly, adv.
in•ter•mix•ture (ˌɪn tərˈmɪks tʃər) n.
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intermix


Past participle: intermixed
Gerund: intermixing

Imperative
intermix
intermix
Present
I intermix
you intermix
he/she/it intermixes
we intermix
you intermix
they intermix
Preterite
I intermixed
you intermixed
he/she/it intermixed
we intermixed
you intermixed
they intermixed
Present Continuous
I am intermixing
you are intermixing
he/she/it is intermixing
we are intermixing
you are intermixing
they are intermixing
Present Perfect
I have intermixed
you have intermixed
he/she/it has intermixed
we have intermixed
you have intermixed
they have intermixed
Past Continuous
I was intermixing
you were intermixing
he/she/it was intermixing
we were intermixing
you were intermixing
they were intermixing
Past Perfect
I had intermixed
you had intermixed
he/she/it had intermixed
we had intermixed
you had intermixed
they had intermixed
Future
I will intermix
you will intermix
he/she/it will intermix
we will intermix
you will intermix
they will intermix
Future Perfect
I will have intermixed
you will have intermixed
he/she/it will have intermixed
we will have intermixed
you will have intermixed
they will have intermixed
Future Continuous
I will be intermixing
you will be intermixing
he/she/it will be intermixing
we will be intermixing
you will be intermixing
they will be intermixing
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been intermixing
you have been intermixing
he/she/it has been intermixing
we have been intermixing
you have been intermixing
they have been intermixing
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been intermixing
you will have been intermixing
he/she/it will have been intermixing
we will have been intermixing
you will have been intermixing
they will have been intermixing
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been intermixing
you had been intermixing
he/she/it had been intermixing
we had been intermixing
you had been intermixing
they had been intermixing
Conditional
I would intermix
you would intermix
he/she/it would intermix
we would intermix
you would intermix
they would intermix
Past Conditional
I would have intermixed
you would have intermixed
he/she/it would have intermixed
we would have intermixed
you would have intermixed
they would have intermixed
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.intermix - combine into oneintermix - combine into one; "blend the nuts and raisins together"; "he blends in with the crowd"; "We don't intermingle much"
amalgamate, commix, mingle, unify, mix - to bring or combine together or with something else; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance"
commingle - mix or blend; "His book commingles sarcasm and sadness"
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intermix

verb
To put together into one mass so that the constituent parts are more or less homogeneous:
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Translations

intermix

vtvermischen
visich vermischen
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Is it improper and unsafe to intermix the different powers of government in the same body of men?
Accident and spies intermix themselves against my playfulness, and spoil the fruit, perhaps-- who knows?
A writer who intermixes great quantity of Greek and Latin with his works, deals by the ladies and fine gentlemen in the same paultry manner with which they are treated by the auctioneers, who often endeavour so to confound and mix up their lots, that, in order to purchase the commodity you want, you are obliged at the same time to purchase that which will do you no service.
Yet, as the ever-woven verdant warp and woof intermixed and hummed around him, the mighty idler seemed the cunning weaver; himself all woven over with the vines; every month assuming greener, fresher verdure; but himself a skeleton.
The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed. On the edge of the river I could faintly make out the only two black things in all the prospect that seemed to be standing upright; one of these was the beacon by which the sailors steered - like an unhooped cask upon a pole - an ugly thing when you were near it; the other a gibbet, with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate.
Elsewhere we have found foreign-looking things and foreign-looking people, but always with things and people intermixed that we were familiar with before, and so the novelty of the situation lost a deal of its force.
It had, indeed, a very cheery aspect, the walls being overspread with a kind of stucco, in which fragments of broken glass were plentifully intermixed; so that, when the sunshine fell aslant-wise over the front of the edifice, it glittered and sparkled as if diamonds had been flung against it by the double handful.
I looked towards its completion with a tremulous and eager hope, which I dared not trust myself to question but which was intermixed with obscure forebodings of evil that made my heart sicken in my bosom.
Phoebe laughed, as she summed up her aggregate of sales upon the slate; while Hepzibah, first drawing on a pair of silk gloves, reckoned over the sordid accumulation of copper coin, not without silver intermixed, that had jingled into the till.
Their darksome figures were intermixed with the wild shapes of their foes, and made the scene a picture of the moment, when waking thoughts start up amid the scattered fantasies of a dream.
But a still more wonderful conjuror fashioned for himself a mighty thing that was neither man nor beast, but which had brains of lead, intermixed with a black matter like pitch, and fingers that it employed with such incredible speed and dexterity that it would have had no trouble in writing out twenty thousand copies of the Koran in an hour, and this with so exquisite a precision, that in all the copies there should not be found one to vary from another by the breadth of the finest hair.
I have seen at one time lying on the ice pickerel of at least three different kinds: a long and shallow one, steel-colored, most like those caught in the river; a bright golden kind, with greenish reflections and remarkably deep, which is the most common here; and another, golden-colored, and shaped like the last, but peppered on the sides with small dark brown or black spots, intermixed with a few faint blood-red ones, very much like a trout.