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amalgamate

UK/əˈmælɡəˌmeɪt/US/əˈmælɡəˌmeɪt/
verbC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Other forms: amalgamated, amalgamating, amalgamates

To amalgamate is to merge separate bodies into one. Amalgamate the two firms, amalgamated in 1974, amalgamate the departments.

It is the formal word for a merger of institutions rather than a takeover, since amalgamating implies both sides ending and something new beginning. It came from metallurgy, where mercury is mixed with another metal.

Definitions of amalgamate

  1. 1verbamalgamateTo merge separate bodies into one.C1

    “The two small village schools will amalgamate next year.”

amalgamate is a merging.

Where it comes from

Medieval Latin amalgamare comes from amalgama, a soft mixture, of uncertain origin.

  1. Medieval Latin

    amalgamātus

  2. English, today

    amalgamate

From Medieval Latin amalgamātus, past participle of amalgamāre, amalgam.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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amalgamate in the wild

  • While the number of cities remained the same before and post-reform, nearly all cities saw nearby areas amalgamate into them.

    List of cities in New Brunswick

  • In 1901, Ocean Man band was forced to amalgamate with White Bear Reserve.

    Ocean Man First Nation

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.