COMBINE

[verb] - to (cause to) exist together, or join together to make a single thing or groupNone of us has much money so let's combine what we've got. [T]The two countries combined against their common enemy. [I]They are normally harmless substances which combine to form a highly poisonous gas. [+ to infinitive]Sickness, combined with (= together with) terrible weather, contrived to ruin the trip. [T]If someone combines two or more qualities, they possess both of those qualities.As a writer, he combined wit and/with cynicism.If you combine two activities, you do both at the same time.She manages to successfully combine family life and/with a career.A combine harvester is a large farming machine which cuts the plant, separates the seed from the stem and cleans the grain as it moves across a field.(specialized) A combining form is a word or group of letters which is added to the beginning or end of words to change or add meaning.The combining form 'Anglo', which means English, combines to make various words, including Anglo-American and Anglophile.