Merge
[mɜːdʒ] or [mɝdʒ]
Definition
(v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
(v. i.) To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Immerse, immerge, submerge, sink, plunge, dip.
v. n. Be lost, be swallowed up.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SINK]
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Definition
v.t. to dip or plunge in: to sink: to cause to be swallowed up.—v.i. to be swallowed up or lost.—n. Mer′ger (law) a sinking of an estate or a security in one of larger extent or of higher value.
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Examples
- Why not leave the other being, free, why try to absorb, or melt, or merge? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- While the pitch of the voice changes constantly, the changes are normally gradual and slight, and the different tones merge into each other imperceptibly. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The chances against me wanted no reckoning up--they were all merged in one. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I was quite unprepared for the rapid manner in which Mrs. Guppy's power of jocularity merged into a power of taking the profoundest offence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I was conscious that every other sentiment, regret, or passion had by degrees merged into a yearning, clinging affection for them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The southern Huns were merged into the imperial population. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Inventions become merged into systems, and systems become swallowed up by companies. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He may be a very superior man, but he is, so to speak, merged--merged--in the more shining qualities of his wife. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As I admired the beauty of the face, he made me a present of the picture, and my admiration has merged itself in a deeper feeling, that of love. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But there is no longer any of the horrible merging, mingling self-abnegation of love. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The merging, the clutching, the mingling of love was become madly abhorrent to him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- All the while her thought was trying to justify her delight in the colors by merging them in her mystic religious joy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Then as the present merges insensibly into the future, the future is taken care of. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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