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conflate \kuhn-FLAYT\, transitive verb: 1. To bring together; to fuse together; to join or meld. 2. To combine (as two readings of a text) into one whole. Scott Reynolds's creepy debut feature [film] conflates the present and the past with ingenious use of flashbacks. -- Anne Billson, "Bent beneath... Sign in to see full entry.