Definition of "amalgamate"

amalgamate

/əˈmælɡəˌmeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present amalgamates, present participle amalgamating, simple past and past participle amalgamated
1. (transitive or intransitive) To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.
  Quotations
  Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.
  1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension
2. To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
3. (transitive, mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
adjective
comparative more amalgamate, superlative most amalgamate
1. Coalesced; united; combined.