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conflate (verb) – 1. To bring together; meld or fuse.
2. To combine (two variant texts, for example) into one whole.
3. To fail to distinguish between; confuse.
Source : The Free Dictionary
Etymology : We’re not just blowing hot air when we tell you that conflate can actually be traced back to the same roots as the English verb blow. Conflate derives from conflatus, the past participle of the Latin verb conflare (“to blow together, to fuse”), which was formed by combining the prefix com-, meaning “with” or “together,” with the Latin verb flare, which means “to blow” and is akin to English’s blow. Other descendants of flare in English include afflatus (“a divine imparting of knowledge or power”), inflate, insufflation (“an act of blowing”), and flageolet (a kind of small flute—the flageolet referring to a green kidney bean is unrelated).
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