Conflate v. t. (past & past part. conflated; pres. part. conflating)
1.
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."
2.
To ignore distinctions between, by treating two or more distinguishable objects or ideas as one; to confuse.
