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amalgamate
[ uh-mal-guh-meyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend; unite; combine:
to amalgamate two companies.
- Metallurgy. to mix or alloy (a metal) with mercury.
verb (used without object)
- to combine, unite, merge, or coalesce:
The three schools decided to amalgamate.
- to blend with another metal, as mercury.
amalgamate
/ əˈmælɡəˌmeɪt /
verb
- to combine or cause to combine; unite
- to alloy (a metal) with mercury
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Other Words From
- a·malga·ma·ble adjective
- a·malga·mative adjective
- a·malga·mator noun
- rea·malga·mate verb reamalgamated reamalgamating
- una·malga·ma·ble adjective
- una·malga·mated adjective
- una·malga·mating adjective
- una·malga·mative adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of amalgamate1
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Example Sentences
Producers are amalgamating two productions with harrowingly topical stories for a run on alternating nights at the Lyceum Theatre.
Another committee for the same purpose is also in formation, and the two committees will either amalgamate or work together.
These latter it left to be dealt with by the new companies into which the craftsmen were beginning to amalgamate.
It is evident that patterns, conventionalized and brought from distant sources, sometimes meet and amalgamate.
Nor would she amalgamate with the children, nor even eat or drink except still beside “Sister,” as she called Angela.
Even as early as Justin we find tendencies to amalgamate historical material and natural theology.
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