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
But the passengers in that car had amalgamated.
From The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris
For the Esher triumvirate had amalgamated "operations" and "intelligence," while they had deposited "home defence" in the Military Training Directorate.
From Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Sir C. E. (Charles Edward) Callwell
Their time was all too short when the route was again given, and the party with which they had amalgamated proceeded by tourist stages to the dream-region of Rotomahana.
From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood
It may readily be supposed that, with such advantages in their favour, the express clerks and the clerks of the roads, for the two bodies had amalgamated and formed one common purse, found many customers.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce
