conflate

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Etymology [edit]

1541[1]: from Latin cōnflātus, from cōnflō (fuse, melt, or blow together); cōn (with, together) + flō (blow).

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conflate (third-person singular simple present conflates, present participle conflating, simple past and past participle conflated)

  1. To bring things together and fuse them into a single entity.
  2. To mix together different elements.

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  1. ^ The Online Etymology Dictionary (2001)

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conflāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of conflō