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"clustering", "congregating", "constellating", "convening", "gathering", "meeting", "recombining", "reconnecting", "rejoining", "reunifying", "reuniting" ], "near antonyms":[ "detaching", "disaffiliating", "disconnecting", "disjoining", "disjointing", "dissociating", "disuniting", "dividing", "divorcing", "fractionating", "isolating", "resolving", "uncoupling", "unyoking", "disbanding", "dispersing", "scattering" ], "antonyms":[ "breaking up", "dissevering", "parting", "sectioning", "separating", "severing", "splitting", "sundering", "unlinking" ] }, "to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{ "examples":[ "nations joining to bring aid to the earthquake-devastated region" ], "synonyms":[ "banding (together)", "collaborating", "concerting", "concurring", "conjoining", "conspiring", "cooperating", "leaguing", "teaming (up)", "uniting" ], "near synonyms":[ "conniving", "affiliating", "allying", "associating", "combining", "confederating", "hanging together", 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"sutures", "concourses", "confluences", "meetings", "unions" ], "near antonyms":[ "clefts", "cracks", "crevices", "fissures", "gaps", "rifts", "separations" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "jointure":{ "a place where two or more things are united":{ "examples":[ "every jointure in the roof of the harbor tunnel shows signs of leakage" ], "synonyms":[ "connection", "coupling", "join", "joining", "joint", "junction", "juncture" ], "near synonyms":[ "link", "nexus", "tie", "interconnection", "intersection", "abutment", "articulation", "attachment", "seam", "suture", "concourse", "confluence", "meeting", "union" ], "near antonyms":[ "cleft", "crack", "crevice", "fissure", "gap", "rift", "separation" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "joinable":{ "as in combinable":{ "examples":[], "synonyms":[], "near synonyms":[ "combinable", "indivisible", "inseparable" ], "near antonyms":[ "divisible", "separable", "detachable", "dissociable" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "adjective" ] } }