Usually means: Merge into one; mix incorrectly.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word conflate:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. conflate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. conflate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. conflate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. conflate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. conflate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Conflate, conflate: Wordnik
  7. conflate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. conflate: Wiktionary
  9. conflate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. conflate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Conflate, conflate: Dictionary.com
  12. conflate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Conflate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Conflate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. conflate: Rhymezone
  16. Conflate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. conflate: Free Dictionary
  18. conflate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. conflate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. conflate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. conflate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conflate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conflate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. conflate: A Word A Day
  2. conflate: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See conflated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To combine or mix together.
verb:  (by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
verb:  (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.
adjective:  (biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
noun:  (biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.

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