conflate
verb (formal)- conflate A and/with B
to put two or more things together to make one new thing 合并;合成;混合 The issues of race and class are separate and should not be conflated. 种族和阶级的问题是分开的,不应该混为一谈。
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘fuse or melt down metal’): from Latin conflat- ‘kindled, fused’, from the verb conflare, from con- ‘together’ + flare ‘to blow’.