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   merge

   /mərj/

   verb

   • 1. combine or cause to combine to form a single entity: "the utility companies are cutting costs and merging with other companies" Similar join (together)join forcesamalgamateconsolidateintegrateuniteunifycombineincorporateaffiliatecoalescemeldagglutinateteam uplink (up)band (together)allyleaguefederateamalgamatebring togetherjoinconsolidateconflateunitecombineincorporatecoalescemeldpoollink (up)knityokeOpposite separatesplit
   • ▪ blend or cause to blend gradually into something else so as to become indistinguishable from it: "he crouched low and endeavored to merge into the darkness of the forest" Similar mingleblendfuserun/melt/fade into one anothermixintermixinterminglecommingleconvergeintegratecoalescecompoundhomogenizeemulsifylump (together)massconglomerate
   • 2. (of a motor vehicle) move from one lane into a gap in the traffic in another lane: "a white car merged into the lane in front of us"
   • ▪ (of traffic) begin to form fewer lines, especially as a result of lanes or roads combining: "traffic was merging due to construction"

   noun

   • 1. an act or instance of merging: "a beautiful merge of the old and the new"
   • 2. an instance of traffic beginning to form fewer lines, especially as a result of lanes or roads combining: "the turn is more like a merge than a standard right turn"

   Word Origin mid 17th century (in the sense ‘immerse oneself’): from Latin mergere ‘to dip, plunge’; the legal sense is from Anglo-Norman French merger.

   Derivatives

   • 1. mergence noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

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