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  • adjective formed or united into a whole; -- of formerly separate objects, groups, etc.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of merge.
  • adjective joined by merging

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  • adjective formed or united into a whole

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Examples

  • Lordship's death, in the Spanish campaign, in the year 1811, his estate fell in to the family of the Tiptoffs, and his title merged in their superior rank; but it does not appear that the Marquis of

    Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Cardinal de Noailles, well disposed at bottom towards the Jansenists, but so feeble in character that determination, disgusted him as if it were a personal insult, ended by once more forbidding the nuns the sacraments; the house in the Fields was surpressed, and its title merged in that of

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830

  • Lordship’s death, in the Spanish campaign, in the year 1811, his estate fell in to the family of the Tiptoffs, and his title merged in their superior rank; but it does not appear that the

    The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

  • Then, on one side and the other, she ran along the base of the wall to where its abrupt bulk merged from the softer-lined landscape.

    The Lair 2010

  • We live in merged/acquired Corporatism and vast monopolies.

    Senate committee debates Wall Street reform bill 2010

  • What happens when corrupt databases are merged, is the corruption compounded, multiplied, squared or merely added to each other?

    Reform Body Attacks 'Database State' Dungeekin 2009

  • • The optical scanners used to read absentee ballots have problems when information is merged from the three machines the county uses.

    July 2004 2004

  • Then, on one side and the other, she ran along the base of the wall to where its abrupt bulk merged from the softer-lined landscape.

    The Lair 1906

  • After reading for some minutes, until his expression merged from attentiveness into seriousness, and from that into a kind of pain, the cosmopolitan slowly laid down the book, and turning to the old man, who thus far had been watching him with benign curiosity, said: "Can you, my aged friend, resolve me a doubt -- a disturbing doubt?"

    The Confidence-Man 1857

  • After reading for some minutes, until his expression merged from attentiveness into seriousness, and from that into a kind of pain, the cosmopolitan slowly laid down the book, and turning to the old man, who thus far had been watching him with benign curiosity, said: "Can you, my aged friend, resolve me a doubt -- a disturbing doubt?"

    The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855

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