amalgamate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they amalgamate | |
| he / she / it amalgamates | |
| past simple amalgamated | |
| past participle amalgamated | |
| -ing form amalgamating |
- [intransitive, transitive]
if two organizations amalgamate or are amalgamated, they join together to form one large organization （使）合并，联合 A number of colleges have amalgamated to form the new university. 一些学院联合组成了这所新大学。 - amalgamate with/into something
The company has now amalgamated with another local firm. 这家公司现在已与当地另一家公司合并了。 - amalgamate something
They decided to amalgamate the two schools. 他们决定将两所学校合并。 - amalgamate something with/into something
The two companies were amalgamated into one. 这两家公司合并成一家公司。
- [transitive] amalgamate something (into/with something)
to put two or more things together so that they form one 使混合；使合并
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin amalgamat- ‘formed into a soft mass’, from the verb amalgamare, from amalgama, from Greek malagma ‘an emollient’.