From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishconflatecon‧flate /kənˈfleɪt/ verb [transitive] formal MIXto combine two or more things to form a single new thing He conflates two images from Kipling’s short stories in the film. —conflation /-ˈfleɪʃən/ noun [countable, uncountable]→ See Verb table
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conflate• The urban crisis or the inner city problem conflates a number of quite different economic, political and social issues.• Although we must not make the mistake of conflating Asians and Asian-Americans, we must recognize that international issues have domestic implications.• There are no composite characters or conflated events in this story.• This same structure is conflated in the novel with Lacan's model of the constitution of subjectivity.• The word typically conflates the causes of stress with the phenomenon of stress.• He takes Adam Smith to task for conflating the division of labour in society with the division within the enterprise.• A feature of all these quotes is that they conflate the social and the personal.• Linguists belonging to the Prague School by and large conflate the two structures and combine them in the same description.• They simply survived or died at home, where their deaths were conflated with the growing numbers of female suicides.Origin conflate (1400-1500) Latin past participle of conflare “to blow together, join”, from com- ( → COM-) + flare “to blow” 