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fundir — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • 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.
  • 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 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.

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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