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Verschmelzen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • coalesce verb To join into a single mass or whole.
  • conflate verb To combine or mix together.
  • 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 join into a single mass or whole.
  2. verb To form from different pieces or elements.
  3. verb To bond pieces of metal into a continuous whole by liquefying parts of each piece, bringing the liquids into contact, and allowing the combined liquid to solidify.
  4. verb To merge, to intermingle freely.

conflate — full definition

  1. verb To combine or mix together.
  2. verb To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
  3. verb 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.

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