pair 'form a pair or pairs' pair off 'form a pair or pairs' band together 'form a group or unite' associate 'bring or come into association or action' consociate 'bring or come into association or action' confederate 'form a confederation with; of nations' couple 'form a pair or pairs' partner off 'form a pair or pairs' confederate 'form a group or unite'
blend 'FN: to mix with something else' come together 'FN: coalesce to make a whole' merge 'FN: to be combined into one' commingle 'FN: to blend together with another item or substance' unite 'FN: to combine with one or more additional entities to form a whole' combine 'COD: unite; merge; unite to form a compound' amalgamate 'COD: combine or unite to form one organization or structure.' unify 'COD: make or become united or uniform.' fuse 'FN: to blend together with one or more additional entities' meld 'FN: to blend together with at least one additional item' intermix 'FN: to blend together with one or more additional items'
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) PP.co-patient[into,to,with] (Co-Patient)
NP (Patient) V () PP.co-patient[with] (Co-Patient)
Examples from WordNet
The groups banded together The churches consociated to fight their dissolution The two old friends paired off
Examples from VerbNet
The yolks and the whites intermingled. Ice cream integrates with desserts. John and Mary are engaged. John introduced Mary to me. We incorporated cranberries into our salad. The merger associated company A with company B. John opposed the two ideas. The pieces interconnected easily. Plays and ballets alternate. John and Mary married. The folk songs alternated well with pop songs. The merger associated the two companies. Company A associated with Company B. A new firm will integrate their ice cream production lines.
Examples from SemCor
It recognizes the fact that what helps one county helps its neighbors and that by banding_together in an area-wide effort better results can be accomplished than through the go-it-alone approach. Two poets are paired on each record, in the order given above. At_the_same_time, Roosevelt 's Federal_Housing_Administration, coupled with Henry_Morgenthau 's cheap-money policy, permitted ordinary lower-middle-class families to build their own homes. A veteran diplomat with an extraordinary knowledge of Russian language, history and literature, Kennan recalls how, at_the_time of Hitler 's attack on the Soviet_Union in 1941, he penned a private note to a State_Department official, expressing the hope that`` never would we associate ourselves with Russian purposes in the areas of eastern Europe beyond her own boundaries''. On the final round at Pensacola, the luck of the draw paired Palmer and Player in the same threesome and, although it was far from obvious at_the_time, the gallery was treated to the first chapter of_what promises to be one of the_most exciting duels in sport for a long_time to come. It was paired with a Darius_Milhaud opera,`` The Poor_Sailor'', set_to a libretto by Jean_Cocteau, a kind_of Grand_Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done_in by his wife.