Word of the Day for Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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conflate \kuhn-FLAYT\, transitive verb:
conflate \kuhn-FLAYT\, transitive verb:
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1. To bring together; to fuse together; to join or meld.
1. To bring together; to fuse together; to join or meld.
2. To combine (as two readings of a text) into one whole.
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The B.O. is trying to conflate his socialist-Marxist agenda with American free enterprise (news flash, B.O. - it won't work)!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Conflate is from Latin conflatus, past participle of conflare, "to blow together; to put together," from con-, "with, together" + flare, "to blow."
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