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| conflate | |
| 1. v. To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity. |  |
| 2. v. To mix together different elements. | |
| 3. v. (by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent. | |
| “Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.” | |
| 4. adj. (biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text. | |
| 5. n. (biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together. | |
