adjoin

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of ADJOIN

to be adjacent to <the bedroom of their apartment adjoins their neighbor's living room>

Synonyms abut, border (on), butt (on or against), flank, fringe, join, march (with), neighbor, skirt, touch, verge (on)

Related Words attach (to), communicate (with), connect (with), link (with); bound, embrace, encircle, enclose (also inclose), fence, line, margin, rim, surround; contact, converge, meet

to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase <after the dictionary writer's talk, the principal adjoined a few remarks about her own love of words>

Synonyms adjoin, annex, append, subjoin, tack (on)

Near Antonyms detach, disconnect, disjoin, separate, unfasten; amputate, cut, excise, lop (off), sever; contract, decrease, diminish, lessen, lower, reduce; abbreviate, abridge, curtail, shorten; compress, condense, constrict, cut back, retrench

Antonyms abate, bate, deduct, knock off, remove, subtract, take off

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