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fundir — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • conflate verb To bring two or more things together as one.
  • fuse noun A safety device containing a component that melts to break an electrical circuit if the current is too high.
  • melt verb To turn from a solid into a liquid through heat.
  • smelt noun A small silvery fish found in cold ocean waters and lakes.

Senses

fundir is used for these senses in English:

  • 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.
  • fuse (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
  • melt (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
  • melt (transitive, figurative) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
  • smelt To produce metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.

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.

fuse — full definition

  1. noun A safety device containing a component that melts to break an electrical circuit if the current is too high.
  2. verb To melt or blend together, especially under heat.
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