conflate
verb
[ kənˈfleɪt ]
• combine (two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, etc.) into one.
• "the urban crisis conflates a number of different economic, political, and social issues"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘fuse or melt down metal’): from Latin conflat- ‘kindled, fused’, from the verb conflare, from con- ‘together’ + flare ‘to blow’.
