Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - juxtapose

(juxtaposes, juxtaposing, juxtaposed) If you juxtapose two contrasting objects, images, or ideas, you place them together or describe them together, so that the differences between them are emphasized. (FORMAL) The technique Mr Wilson uses most often is to juxtapose things for dramatic effect... Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with a sixteenth century, copper Portuguese mirror. ...art’s oldest theme: the celebration of life juxtaposed with the terror of mortality. VERB: V pl-n, be V-ed with n, V-ed, also V n with n