Conflate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To bring together; meld or fuse: "The problems [with the biopic] include . . . dates moved around, lovers deleted, many characters conflated into one” ( Ty Burr).
  • v. To combine (two variant texts, for example) into one whole.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To bring things together and fuse them into a single entity.
  • v. To mix together different elements.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.
  • v. to ignore distinctions between, by treating two or more distinguishable objects or ideas as one; to confuse.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To blow together; bring together as if by convergent winds.
  • In diplomatics, to form by inadvertent combination of two readings of the same words. See conflation, 3.
  • Blown together; wafted together from several sources; heterogeneous.
  • In diplomatics, marked by conflation; inadvertently formed by combining two different readings into one: as, a conflate text or passage.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. mix together different elements
  • Verb Form
    conflated    conflates    conflating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Hyponym
    blend in    admix    mix in    alloy    meld    conjugate    syncretise    syncretize    absorb    gauge   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    confuse    fuse    meld   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ate    Cate    Est    Fate    Haight    Iwate    Kate    Kuwait    Nate    Solid-state