merge

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

merge [merge merges merged merging] BrE [mɜːdʒ] NAmE [mɜːrdʒ] verb
1. intransitive, transitive to combine or make two or more things combine to form a single thing
•The banks are set to merge next year.
•The two groups have merged to form a new party.
•~ with sth His department will merge with mine.
•~ into sth The villages expanded and merged into one large town.
•~ (A and B) (together) Fact and fiction merge together in his latest thriller.
•~ A with B His department will be merged with mine.
•~ sth The company was formed by merging three smaller firms.
2. intransitive ~ (into sth) if two things merge, or if one thing merges into another, the differences between them gradually disappear so that it is impossible to separate them
•The hills merged into the dark sky behind them.
Idiom: ↑merge into the background
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Word Origin:
mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘immerse oneself’): from Latin mergere ‘to dip, plunge’; the legal sense is from Anglo-Norman French merger.

Example Bank:
•The company announced plans to merge with its biggest rival.
•The figures gradually merged into the darkness.
•The government decided to merge the two agencies together.
•The two groups later merged to form Interdrug.
•This group eventually merged into the Communist Party.
•plans to merge the council with the six smaller district councils
•They looked towards the point where the hills and sky merged.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  unite, unify
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  disunify, break apart