mingle

mix, mingle, commingle, blend, merge, coalesce, amalgamate, fuse mean to combine into a more or less uniform whole. mix may or may not imply loss of each element's identity.

• • mix the salad greens
• • mix a drink

mingle usually suggests that the elements are still somewhat distinguishable or separately active.

• • fear mingled with anticipation in my mind

commingle implies a closer or more thorough mingling.

• • a sense of duty commingled with a fierce pride drove her

blend implies that the elements as such disappear in the resulting mixture.

• • blended several teas to create a balanced flavor

merge suggests a combining in which one or more elements are lost in the whole.

• • in his mind reality and fantasy merged

coalesce implies an affinity in the merging elements and usually a resulting organic unity.

• • telling details that coalesce into a striking portrait

amalgamate implies the forming of a close union without complete loss of individual identities.

• • refugees who were readily amalgamated into the community

fuse stresses oneness and indissolubility of the resulting product.

• • a building in which modernism and classicism are fused