conflate

Plural: conflates

Verb

Verb Forms: conflated, conflating, conflates

• To combine two or more texts or ideas into one.
• mix together different elements
• To combine or mix together.
• To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
• To deliberately draw a false equivalence or association, typically in a tacit or implicit manner as propaganda and/or an intentional distortion or misrepresentation of the subject matter.

Adj

• Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.

Noun

• A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.

Examples

• His strategy was to CONFLATE several short words into one long, high-scoring bingo.
• “Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.”

Synonyms

blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix, amalgamate, confuse, lump together, mix up

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