amalgamate
to mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend; unite; combine: to amalgamate two companies.
Metallurgy. to mix or alloy (a metal) with mercury.
to combine, unite, merge, or coalesce: The three schools decided to amalgamate.
to blend with another metal, as mercury.
Origin of amalgamate
1Other words from amalgamate
- a·mal·ga·ma·ble, adjective
- a·mal·ga·ma·tive, adjective
- a·mal·ga·ma·tor, noun
- re·a·mal·ga·mate, verb, re·a·mal·ga·mat·ed, re·a·mal·ga·mat·ing.
- un·a·mal·ga·ma·ble, adjective
- un·a·mal·ga·mat·ed, adjective
- un·a·mal·ga·mat·ing, adjective
- un·a·mal·ga·ma·tive, adjective
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How to use amalgamate in a sentence
Producers are amalgamating two productions with harrowingly topical stories for a run on alternating nights at the Lyceum Theatre.
After a devastating lull, theater is coming back big | Peter Marks | September 10, 2021 | Washington PostAnother committee for the same purpose is also in formation, and the two committees will either amalgamate or work together.
Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts | George CruikshankThese latter it left to be dealt with by the new companies into which the craftsmen were beginning to amalgamate.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertIt is evident that patterns, conventionalized and brought from distant sources, sometimes meet and amalgamate.
Needlework As Art | Marian AlfordNor would she amalgamate with the children, nor even eat or drink except still beside “Sister,” as she called Angela.
Modern Broods | Charlotte Mary Yonge
Even as early as Justin we find tendencies to amalgamate historical material and natural theology.
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) | Adolph Harnack
British Dictionary definitions for amalgamate
/ (əˈmælɡəˌmeɪt) /
to combine or cause to combine; unite
to alloy (a metal) with mercury
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