Merge Meaning
/mɜːd͡ʒ/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo combine into a whole.
verbTo blend gradually into something else.
Sentence Examples
He was given a tip three weeks ago that two companies would merge.
Remember to look for oncoming traffic before you merge left.
The banks are set to merge next year.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The two small rivers ____ just before the bridge, forming one larger stream.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The two small companies decided to ____ in order to compete more effectively with the industry's giants.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Latin mergō (“to dip; dip in; plunge; sink down into; immerse; overwhelm”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordinate vanity"
— 1791, Edmund Burke, letter to a member of the National Assembly:
"Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots—Englishmen—lovers of liberty."
— 1835 January, [Thomas De Quincey], “Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By the English Opium-eater. […]”, in William Tait, editor, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume II, number XIII, Edinburgh: William Tait […], →OCLC, page 8, column 1:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The two small rivers ____ just before the bridge, forming one larger stream.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The two small companies decided to ____ in order to compete more effectively with the industry's giants.