Verschmelzen — meaning in English

English meaning

• coalesce verb To come together to form one single thing.
• conflate verb To bring two or more things together as one.
• elide verb To leave out or omit something.
• fuse noun A safety device containing a component that melts to break an electrical circuit if the current is too high.
• fusion noun The act or result of combining separate things into one.
• merge verb To combine two or more things into one.
• smelt noun A small silvery fish found in cold ocean waters and lakes.

Senses

Verschmelzen is used for these senses in English:

• coalescence The act of coalescing.
• conflate (by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
• conflate (by extension) 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.
• elide To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between.
• fuse (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
• fusion (fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.
• merge (transitive, intransitive) To combine into a whole.
• smelt To produce metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.

coalesce — full definition

1. verb To come together to form one single thing.
2. verb To form as a single whole out of separate parts.
3. verb (engineering) To join pieces of metal by melting parts of each one and letting the melted parts set together as one piece.
4. verb To mix together and become one, moving and blending freely.

conflate — full definition

1. verb To bring two or more things together as one.
2. verb To wrongly treat two different things as if they were the same.
3. verb To link two things together on purpose to create a false impression.

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