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amalgamate

verb
🔊/əˈmælɡəmeɪt/
🔊/əˈmælɡəmeɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they amalgamate
🔊/əˈmælɡəmeɪt/
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he / she / it amalgamates
🔊/əˈmælɡəmeɪts/
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past simple amalgamated
🔊/əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪd/
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past participle amalgamated
🔊/əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪd/
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-ing form amalgamating
🔊/əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪŋ/
🔊/əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive, transitive] if two organizations amalgamate or are amalgamated, they join together to form one large organization （使）合并，联合synonym merge
    • A number of colleges have amalgamated to form the new university.一些学院联合组成了这所新大学。🔊🔊
    • amalgamate with/into something The company has now amalgamated with another local firm.这家公司现在已与当地另一家公司合并了。🔊🔊
    • amalgamate something They decided to amalgamate the two schools.他们决定将两所学校合并。🔊🔊
    • amalgamate something with/into something The two companies were amalgamated into one.这两家公司合并成一家公司。🔊🔊
  2. [transitive] amalgamate something (into/with something) to put two or more things together so that they form one使混合；使合并 synonym merge
    • This information will be amalgamated with information obtained earlier.这个信息要与早先得到的信息综合在一起。🔊🔊
    3. Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin amalgamat- ‘formed into a soft mass’, from the verb amalgamare, from amalgama, from Greek malagma ‘an emollient’.