conflate

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Verb

Plain form conflate

Third-person singular conflates

Past tense conflated

Past participle conflated

Present participle conflating

1. To bring things together and merge them into a single entity, sometimes wrongly

   When she conflated two ideas, it was like mixing apples and oranges.

   The police made a mistake when they conflated "terrorists" and protest activists.