conflate

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: con=flate

CIDE DICTIONARY

conflate, v. t. [L. conflatus, p. p. of conflare to blow together; con- + flare to blow.].

•  To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.  [1913 Webster]

  "The State-General, created and conflated by the passionate effort of the whole nation."  [1913 Webster]
•  to ignore distinctions between, by treating two or more distinguishable objects or ideas as one; to confuse.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

conflate, v.tr. blend or fuse together (esp. two variant texts into one).

Derivative

conflation n.

Etymology

L conflare (as com-, flare blow)