amalgamate

英 [əˈmælɡəmeɪt]

美 [əˈmælɡəmeɪt]

v.  (使)合并，联合; 使混合; 使合并

过去分词：amalgamated　过去式：amalgamated　现在分词：amalgamating　第三人称单数：amalgamates　

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牛津词典

verb

• （使）合并，联合
  if two organizations amalgamate or are amalgamated , they join together to form one large organization
  1. The company has now amalgamated with another local firm.
     这家公司现在已与当地一家公司合并了。
  2. 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。
  3. The two companies were amalgamated into one.
     这两家公司合并成一家公司。
  4. They decided to amalgamate the two schools.
     他们决定将两所学校合并。
• 使混合；使合并
  to put two or more things together so that they form one
  1. 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。

柯林斯词典

• V-RECIP-ERG （使）合并
  When two or more things, especially organizations,amalgamateorare amalgamated, they become one large thing.
  1. The firm has amalgamated with an American company...
     该公司和一家美国公司合并了。
  2. The chemical companies had amalgamated into a vast conglomerate...
     那些化学品公司已经合并成一个庞大的企业集团。
  3. The Visitors' Centre amalgamates the traditions of the Old World with the technology of the New.
     来宾中心将欧洲的传统与美洲的技术结合在一起。

英英释义

verb

• to bring or combine together or with something else
  1. resourcefully he mingled music and dance
  Synonym:mixminglecommixunify

adj

• joined together into a whole
  1. United Industries
  2. the amalgamated colleges constituted a university
  3. a consolidated school
  Synonym:amalgamatedcoalescedconsolidatedfused

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