amalgamate
verb (used with object)
to mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend; unite; combine.
had amalgamated
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past perfectof amalgamate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
He was nicely plated all over with a film of mercury, which had amalgamated itself with the metallic surface of the suit.
From The Bramble Bush by George Luther Schelling
Thus, with some differences of law and dialect, these once turbulent invaders had amalgamated amicably with the native race 21.
From Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
But the passengers in that car had amalgamated.
From The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris
A few days later the new birds and the old ones had amalgamated, and twelve little swallows floated in the air before my eyes.
From Seen and Unseen by E. Katharine Bates
