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View synonyms for conflate
conflate
[ kuhn-fleyt ]
verb (used with object)
, con·flat·ed, con·flat·ing.
- to fuse into one entity; merge:
to conflate dissenting voices into one protest.
conflate
/ kənˈfleɪt /
verb
- tr to combine or blend (two things, esp two versions of a text) so as to form a whole
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Derived Forms
- conˈflation, noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of conflate1
C16: from Latin conflāre to blow together, from flāre to blow
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Example Sentences
With Entourage and Vincent Chase, do you feel like audiences and producers tend to conflate you with the character?
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I still conflate safer sex with respect for the gay community and the lessons we learned from the AIDS crisis.
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Now it looks as if the Israeli strategy of trying to get us to conflate the issues has gained traction.
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Christie will need to assure the party about his own integrity, and his tendency to conflate government with his own self.
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And I think [Gould] was guilty of using a poetic language to conflate those three kinds of episodic changes.
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