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Dictionary: con·flate   (kən-flāt') pronunciation
 
tr.v., -flat·ed, -flat·ing, -flates.
  1. To bring together; meld or fuse: “The problems [with the biopic] include . . . dates moved around, lovers deleted, many characters conflated into one” (Ty Burr).
  2. To combine (two variant texts, for example) into one whole.

[Latin cōnflāre, cōnflāt- : com-, com- + flāre, to blow.]

conflation con·fla'tion n.
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1a) to bring together: fuse b) confuse(?)
2) to combine (as two readings of a text) into a composite whole
 
WordNet: conflate
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The verb has one meaning:

Meaning #1: mix together different elements
  Synonyms: blend, flux, mix, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge


 
Translations: Conflate
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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - indarbejde i hinanden

Nederlands (Dutch)
samenvoegen/ -smelten

Français (French)
v. tr. - regrouper

Deutsch (German)
v. - verschmelzen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - συσσωματώνω, (τυπογρ.) συγχωνεύω (κείμενα)

Italiano (Italian)
fondere insieme, combinare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - fundir

Русский (Russian)
комбинировать, смешивать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - combinar dos textos

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - sammanfläta

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
合并, 异文合并

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 合併, 異文合併

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 융합하다, 정리하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 融合する, 合成する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) دمج شيئان‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮צירף, חיבר‬


 
 

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