The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conflate \Con*flate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conflated; p. pr. & vb. n. Conflating.] [L. conflatus, p. p. of conflare to blow together; con- + flare to blow.]
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To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.
The State-General, created and conflated by the passionate effort of the whole nation.
--Carlyle. to ignore distinctions between, by treating two or more distinguishable objects or ideas as one; to confuse.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of conflate English)
Usage examples of "conflating".
You can fuck around with masculinity and femininity by heightening them, by flattening them, by caricaturing them, by placing them ostentatiously in quotation marks, or by crossing or conflating them in ways that violently flout our usual expectations.
Britain’s chief of state gushed and bubbled and, editorially speaking, lifted his skirt over his head, to thank Bill Clinton and the whole of the United States (often conflating the two) for introducing him to the simple pleasures of bombing selected dictators and to leadership the American Way.
That is how it also controlled consciousness, sleep, and dreaming, by inflating and conflating the ventricular system.
The problems spring perhaps from conflating human history with evolutionary development.