adj Joined or fused together physically, as with conjoined twins.
- These 'signatures' (in Arabic ‘alāmāt; singular, ‘alāma) typically consisted of a phrase of up to half a dozen conjoined words written as a monogram in which the reed pen usually maintained contact with the parchment throughout.
— Alex Metcalfe (2009)
- The hospital successfully separated the conjoined twins after a long operation.
- Blood vessels are fused to increase circulation and these conjoined or grafted veins and arteries make great painful lumps which have to be soaked daily.
— Saul Bellow, The Dean's December (1982)
adj United or bound together, especially in a relationship or partnership.
- Their fates felt conjoined after years of working side by side.
- But as representatives of a loosely conjoined nation split in a hundred ways by personal, tribal, religious and economic rivalries and jealousies, no two of them went to the conference agreed on what independence should mean.
— , E Pluribus Nigeria (1957)
