unify

[ yoo-nuh-fahy ]

/ ˈyu nəˌfaɪ /

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verb (used with or without object), u·ni·fied, u·ni·fy·ing.

to make or become a single unit; unite: to unify conflicting theories;to unify a country.

OTHER WORDS FOR unify

combine, merge, fuse, coalesce.

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Origin of unify

First recorded in 1495–1505; from Late Latin ūnificāre, equivalent to Latin ūni- uni- + -ficāre -fy

OTHER WORDS FROM unify

u·ni·fi·er, nounnon·u·ni·fied, adjectivequa·si-u·ni·fied, adjectivere·u·ni·fy, verb (used with object), re·u·ni·fied, re·u·ni·fy·ing.

un·u·ni·fied, adjective

Words nearby unify

uniformitarian, uniformitarianism, uniformity, uniformize, uniform resource locator, unify, unihemispheric slow-wave sleep, unijugate, unilateral, Unilateral Declaration of Independence, unilateralism

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How to use unify in a sentence

That’s why the response to the coup from Myanmar’s thriving arts community has been unified, Khine says.
Myanmar's Creatives Are Fighting Military Rule With Art—Despite the Threat of a Draconian New Cyber-Security Law|Suyin Haynes|February 12, 2021|Time
In creating a transformed US paid search account aligned to Schneider Electric’s business goals of driving the right search traffic to the right pages on the site, the unified paid search team wasn’t starting from square one.
Case study: Schneider Electric’s digital transformation through centralized search|Evan Kent and Kimberly Dutcher|February 11, 2021|Search Engine Watch
It’s so striking to me that this is one of those things where you’d think it would unify the country.
“We did the worst job in the world”: Lawrence Wright on America’s botched Covid-19 response|Sean Illing|February 9, 2021|Vox
In the middle of it all is McCarthy, who tried to unify his caucus in that closed-door meeting, standing behind Cheney and Greene both.
The Marjorie Taylor Greene committee removal vote, explained|Gabby Birenbaum|February 5, 2021|Vox

“City of a Thousand Gates” might not appeal to readers who like their stories neatly unified, resolved, centered on the individual.
Rebecca Sacks’s ‘City of a Thousand Gates’ is a kaleidoscopic debut that illuminates the Israeli-Palestinian conflict|Porter Shreve|February 4, 2021|Washington Post
And ultimately, you pursued a partisan political agenda rather than seek to unify the country and move us together.
Dear Obama, the Time for Presidential Leadership on Race Is Now|Ron Christie|April 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I would unify the conservative family and I believe the conservative family needs to be unified.
Georgia Is Ground Zero For GOP Civil War|Patricia Murphy|March 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This kind of framing could unify, to some extent anyway, the Democratic left and center.
What Obama Can Learn From Elizabeth Warren|Michael Tomasky|December 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Similarly, most European states took centuries to unify and become liberal democracies.
Defeating the Arab Spring Syndrome of Self-Defeat|Talal Alyan|October 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In short, does refraining from running buses on Shabbat serve to unify the country around the symbol of the Jewish week?
Left-Wing Party Runs Buses On The Sabbath|Mira Sucharov|January 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A whole bunch of unifiers were ahead of him; each one of them was trying to unify Italy in his own way.
Humanly Speaking|Samuel McChord Crothers
Men will unify only to intensify the search for knowledge and power, and live as ever for new occasions.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind|Herbert George Wells
But stress has done more than articulate or unify sequences that in their own right imply a syntactic relation.
Language|Edward Sapir
Equilibrium of intelligence tends to unify and harmonize American interests and to strengthen patriotism.
A Broader Mission for Liberal Education|John Henry Worst
The individual is sovereign over himself”—attains his Swaraj “in so far as he can develop control and unify his manifold nature.
Freedom Through Disobedience|C. R. (Chittaranjan) Das

British Dictionary definitions for unify

unify

/ (ˈjuːnɪˌfaɪ) /

verb -fies, -fying or -fied

to make or become one; unite

Derived forms of unify

unifiable, adjectiveunifier, noun

Word Origin for unify

C16: from Medieval Latin ūnificāre, from Latin ūnus one + facere to make

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