0 present participle of conflate
1 to combine two or more separate things, especially pieces of text, to form a whole:
Now there is a danger here of conflating these very distinct yet related goals.
We can create new partitions from old by conflating blocks.
The child is not concerned because he trusts his pediatrician - conflating the pediatrician's role as clinician and scientist.
Another group of works aspires to the sublime rather than the ridiculous, conflating the exposed teeth of the singer with those of the rapt mystic.
By conflating their local concerns with a national emergency they portrayed their request for an official ban on emigration as a wartime necessity.
This fallacious implication relies on conflating the brain and the cortex.
In general, therefore, hateful speech does not preempt further speech, whereas conflating pain and harm simply begs the question in favor of political regulation.
The fair-opportunity theory, in conflating moral blamelessness and legal innocence, fails to capture this nuance of the law.
