amalgamate

1. 1.

   joined together into a whole

   “United Industries”

   “the amalgamated colleges constituted a university”

   “a consolidated school”

   Synonymsamalgamatedcoalescedconsolidatedfused

   Similarunited

Other forms of amalgamate

past tense

amalgamated·

present participle

amalgamating·

third person

amalgamates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about amalgamate

What does amalgamate mean?

amalgamate means "to bring or combine together or with something else". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in amalgamate?

amalgamate has 4 syllables: a-mal-ga-mate. The stress falls on "mal". In IPA it is /əˈmælɡəˌmeɪt/.

What is another word for amalgamate?

Close synonyms include mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amalgamate a common word?

amalgamate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with amalgamate?

17 words rhyme with amalgamate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.