merge
To join together and become one.
merge in a sentence
- The two streams merged into a single wide river below the hill.
- At the roundabout, the two lanes of traffic slowly merge into one.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to merge?
- Aseparate
- Bsplit
- Cdivide
- Djoin
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D: join. The other three mean the opposite of merge.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to merge?
- Acombine
- Bjoin
- Csplit
- Dblend
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C: split. The other three mean nearly the same as merge.
Words that mean something similar
join, combine, blend
Words that mean the opposite
split, separate, divide
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