verb Download 🔗Share To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity. Examples : "The news report conflated the two separate incidents, making it sound like they were part of the same event. " theory philosophy mind Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To mix together different elements. Examples : "The student conflated the causes of the American Revolution with the events of the Civil War in their essay. " language linguistics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent. Examples : "“Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.”" language communication linguistics writing logic philosophy mind Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading