unite

unite 1 conjoin, combine, *join, connect, link, associate, relate

Analogous words: *mix, blend, merge, amalgamate: *weave, knit: *integrate, concatenate, articulate

Antonyms: divide: alienate

2 Unite, combine, coiyoin, cooperate, concur are comparable especially when they are applied to people or groups or categories of people or to human institutions and when they mean to join forces so as to act together or to form a larger unit.

Unite may suggest either of these ends

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to unite their strength to maintain international peace and security— Dean

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states which would be politically independent but economically united—Current Biog.

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but it more commonly suggests the formation of a new or larger unit (as by merging)

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slowly uniting the Middle Eastern peoples in a strong emotional, religious nationalism— Atyeo

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Combine (see also JOIN) is often used interchangeably with unite, but it may be preferred when a somewhat looser or more temporary association is to be suggested

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several citizens combined to lead the campaign for the adoption of the city-manager form of government

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it is not so difficult to combine matrimony and a career in a small city— Hobb

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Combine also is the one of these words that is at all likely to carry derogatory connotations (compare combine under COMBINATION)

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no man is at liberty to combine, conspire and unlawfully agree to regulate the whole body of workingmen— J. N. Welch & Richard Hofstadter

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Conjoin (see also JOIN) stresses firmness of the combination

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the English army, that divided was into two parties, is now conjoined in one— Shak.

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despotism, priestcraft, and proletariat have ever been good friends; a kind of freemasonry . . . has conjoined them from time immemorial against the honest and educated classes— Norman Douglas

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Cooperate implies a combining for the sake of action or mutual support or assistance

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it is . . . difficult to induce a number of free beings to cooperate for their mutual benefit— Goldsmith

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because the states can so seldom cooperate on common problems, federal intervention is inevitable— Armbristery

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Concur in this relation retains the notion of agreement from another of its senses (which see under AGREE 2)

and specifically implies a joining in agreement

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was also a member of the Senate Finance Committee, with which he concurred in a recommendation of lowered income taxes— Current Biog.

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the Scotch philosopher believed that there was a moral discipline in nature .... Bryant and Cole concurred in this opinion— Ringey

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Analogous words: mingle, commingle, coalesce, fuse (see MIX): adhere, cohere, *stick, cling, cleave

Antonyms: part