conflate

[kuh n-fleyt]

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verb (used with object), con·flat·ed, con·flat·ing.

to fuse into one entity; merge: to conflate dissenting voices into one protest.

Origin of conflate

1600–10; < Latin conflātus, past participle of conflāre to fuse together, equivalent to con- con- + flāre to blow²

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Related Words for conflate

meld, fuse, amalgamate, unify, consolidate, converge, unite, blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, network, mix, mingle, pool

Examples from the Web for conflate

Contemporary Examples of conflate

With Entourage and Vincent Chase, do you feel like audiences and producers tend to conflate you with the character?
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Marlow Stern
October 28, 2014
Now it looks as if the Israeli strategy of trying to get us to conflate the issues has gained traction.
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Josh Rogin
April 1, 2014
Christie will need to assure the party about his own integrity, and his tendency to conflate government with his own self.
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Lloyd Green
November 6, 2013
And I think [Gould] was guilty of using a poetic language to conflate those three kinds of episodic changes.
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J.P. O’Malley
September 23, 2013
But he really had the wit and the energy to conflate that disappointment into outrage.
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Malcolm Jones
August 24, 2012

British Dictionary definitions for conflate

conflate

verb

(tr) to combine or blend (two things, esp two versions of a text) so as to form a whole

Derived Formsconflation, noun

Word Origin for conflate

C16: from Latin conflāre to blow together, from flāre to blow

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Word Origin and History for conflate

1540s, from Latin conflat-, past participle stem of conflare "to blow up, kindle, light; bring together, compose," also "to melt together," literally "to blow together," from com- "with" (see com-) + flare "to blow" (see blow (v.1)).