Conflate

[Vania]

1. To bring (things) together and [fuse] (them) into a single entity.

2. To mix together different elements.

3. To fail to properly [distinguish] or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.

4. To bring together; [meld] or fuse.

5. To combine (two variant texts, for example) into one whole.

6. To fail to distinguish between; confuse.

7. To combine (two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, etc.) into one.