MEANING
To combine distinct ideas, accounts, or categories, sometimes obscuring important differences.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- conflate two accounts
- conflate X with Y
On the page
He conflated two journeys in the story he told the children.
The report conflates suspicion with proof.
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Word forms
- Base
- conflate
- Past tense
- conflated
- Past participle
- conflated
- Present participle
- conflating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- conflate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are conflating
- Present perfect
- have/has conflated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been conflating
- Past
- conflated
- Past continuous
- was/were conflating
- Past perfect
- had conflated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been conflating
- Future
- will conflate
- Future continuous
- will be conflating
- Future perfect
- will have conflated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been conflating
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: conflate; conflates; conflated; conflated; conflating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: conflates.
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