Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to conflate
Participle: conflated
Gerund: conflating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | conflate |
| you | conflate |
| he;she;it | conflates |
| we | conflate |
| you | conflate |
| they | conflate |
Perfect
| I | have conflated |
| you | have conflated |
| he;she;it | has conflated |
| we | have conflated |
| you | have conflated |
| they | have conflated |
Past
| I | conflated |
| you | conflated |
| he;she;it | conflated |
| we | conflated |
| you | conflated |
| they | conflated |
Pluperfect
| I | had conflated |
| you | had conflated |
| he;she;it | had conflated |
| we | had conflated |
| you | had conflated |
| they | had conflated |
Future
| I | will conflate |
| you | will conflate |
| he;she;it | will conflate |
| we | will conflate |
| you | will conflate |
| they | will conflate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have conflated |
| you | will have conflated |
| he;she;it | will have conflated |
| we | will have conflated |
| you | will have conflated |
| they | will have conflated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | conflate |
| you | conflate |
| he;she;it | conflate |
| we | conflate |
| you | conflate |
| they | conflate |
Perfect
| I | have conflated |
| you | have conflated |
| he;she;it | have conflated |
| we | have conflated |
| you | have conflated |
| they | have conflated |
Imperfect
| I | conflated |
| you | conflated |
| he;she;it | conflated |
| we | conflated |
| you | conflated |
| they | conflated |
Pluperfect
| I | had conflated |
| you | had conflated |
| he;she;it | had conflated |
| we | had conflated |
| you | had conflated |
| they | had conflated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would conflate |
| you | would conflate |
| he;she;it | would conflate |
| we | would conflate |
| you | would conflate |
| they | would conflate |
Perfect
| I | would have conflated |
| you | would have conflated |
| he;she;it | would have conflated |
| we | would have conflated |
| you | would have conflated |
| they | would have conflated |
Imperative
| you | conflate |
| we | Let's conflate |
| you | conflate |
Verbs conjugated like 'conflate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'conflate'
canulate,
collate,
confute,
consolate,
constate,
copulate,
inflate,
borylate,
cannulate,
chelate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to join into a single mass or whole
- agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, blend, coalesce, embody, fuse, integrate, mass, meld, merge, unite
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Attested since 1541: from Latin cōnflātus, past passive participle of cōnflō (“fuse, kindle, blow together”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: confuse
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“Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.”
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But as Covid wore on, and all of this not-really-reading took on an ever more breathless quality, it became clear that we were being not confused but conflated, treated as one interchangeable Naomi. [2023, Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Penguin, →ISBN, page 39:]
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But in reality, the order simply furthers the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies by continuing to conflate immigration issues with criminal ones. [2018 June 25, Shan Wu, “The real story behind Trump’s immigration executive order”, in CNN:]
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But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College. [2020 August 18, “Your big questions about race, answered”, in CNN:]
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Climate skeptics have conflated the two for years, for example, pointing to cold winter weather as proof that global warming is a hoax, most likely to play on people’s confusion about the two. [2020 September 15, Brandon Miller and Judson Jones, “Climate is not weather: Trump continues to get the two conflated”, in CNN:]
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“We must stop conflating selectivity with excellence. We must stop correlating prestige with privilege,” he said. [2022 September 12, Deidre McPhillips, “Critiques mount around popular annual college rankings”, in CNN:]