amalgamate
verb/əˈmælɡəmeɪt/
/əˈmælɡəmeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they amalgamate | /əˈmælɡəmeɪt/ /əˈmælɡəmeɪt/ |
| he / she / it amalgamates | /əˈmælɡəmeɪts/ /əˈmælɡəmeɪts/ |
| past simple amalgamated | /əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪd/ /əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle amalgamated | /əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪd/ /əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form amalgamating | /əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪŋ/ /əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] if two organizations amalgamate or are amalgamated, they join together to form one large organization synonym merge
- A number of colleges have amalgamated to form the new university.
- amalgamate with/into something The company has now amalgamated with another local firm.
- amalgamate something They decided to amalgamate the two schools.
- amalgamate something with/into something The two companies were amalgamated into one.
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- [transitive] amalgamate something (into/with something) to put two or more things together so that they form one synonym merge
- This information will be amalgamated with information obtained earlier.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin amalgamat- ‘formed into a soft mass’, from the verb amalgamare, from amalgama, from Greek malagma ‘an emollient’.
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