amalgamate

What it means

1. intransitivetransitiveTo merge, to combine, to blend, to join.

   to amalgamate two races

   3 more examples

   to amalgamate one race with another

   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, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC

   At length, the two schemes were amalgamated to form the Manchester & Birmingham, which was to pass through the Potteries and join the Grand Junction at Chebsey, a few miles north of Stafford.

   1957 September 28, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 617

   Synonyms: mix · Antonyms: separate

2. To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
3. transitivemathematicsTo combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.

In a sentence

to amalgamate two races

Where it comes from

1. Medieval Latinamalgamātus
2. Englishamalgamate

From Medieval Latin amalgamātus, past participle of amalgamāre, amalgama.