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  • adjective joined together into a whole.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of fuse.
  • adjective Joined together by fusing.
  • adjective Melted.
  • adjective Furnished with a fuse.

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  • adjective joined together into a whole

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Examples

  • In a former paper, in which we dwelt much on this subject, we mentioned that we had the report of a very scientific friend, who had spent nearly a life of leisure and competence in experiments on pictures, that the paint of the old masters _fused_, not only where white lead had been used, but in every part; and we ourselves saw him try the experiment upon the background of an old picture, by means of the blow-pipe, and the result was a fused substance -- a glass.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

  • a and b are fused to form experience c, we should treat ˜fused™ as referring to a process in which

    The Unity of Consciousness Brook, Andrew 2006

  • "Dymaxion" is a neologism fused from "dynamic," "maximum," and "tension;" Fuller applied it to several of his quixotic projects: the car, the house, the map of the world.

    Madison Smartt Bell: A Shape of Things to Come Madison Smartt Bell 2011

  • "Dymaxion" is a neologism fused from "dynamic," "maximum," and "tension;" Fuller applied it to several of his quixotic projects: the car, the house, the map of the world.

    Madison Smartt Bell: A Shape of Things to Come Madison Smartt Bell 2011

  • The word fused several circuits in his brain for a few seconds.

    Sharp Edges Jayne Ann Krentz 1998

  • She specialized in fused glass for 25 years in Alaska and Hawaii before coming to Ajijic.

    Kimball Gallery In Chapala 2006

  • She specialized in fused glass for 25 years in Alaska and Hawaii before coming to Ajijic.

    Kimball Gallery In Chapala 2006

  • In his work on human rights, Cassin fused his legal knowledge, his humanitarian instinct, and his belief in internationalism.

    René Cassin - Biography 1968

  • I hadn’t been terribly inspired by anything I’d seen in fused glass, but I figured that it was one of the few types of glassworking I hadn’t tried yet, so I ought to give it a go.

    Kater’s Art » 2010 » June 2010

  • I hadn’t been terribly inspired by anything I’d seen in fused glass, but I figured that it was one of the few types of glassworking I hadn’t tried yet, so I ought to give it a go.

    Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Beetles in Amber 2010

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