conflate

1. V-RECIP If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, or if they conflate, you combine them in order to produce a single one. 合并[正式]

Her letters conflate past and present. 她的信把过去与现在结合在一起。

Unfortunately the public conflated fiction with reality and made her into a saint. 不幸的是，公众将杜撰与事实合并了起来并把她当做了圣人。

The two meanings conflated. 这两种意思合并在了一起。