merge
verb /mɜːdʒ/
/mɜːrdʒ/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they merge | /mɜːdʒ/ /mɜːrdʒ/ |
| he / she / it merges | /ˈmɜːdʒɪz/ /ˈmɜːrdʒɪz/ |
| past simple merged | /mɜːdʒd/ /mɜːrdʒd/ |
| past participle merged | /mɜːdʒd/ /mɜːrdʒd/ |
| -ing form merging | /ˈmɜːdʒɪŋ/ /ˈmɜːrdʒɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to combine or make two or more things combine to form a single thing
- The banks are set to merge next year.
- The two groups have merged to form a new party.
- merge with something His department will merge with mine.
- merge into something The villages expanded and merged into one large town.
- merge (A and B) (together) Fact and fiction merge together in his latest thriller.
- merge A with B His department will be merged with mine.
- merge something The company was formed by merging three smaller firms.
- merge something into something Merge multiple text files into one master file.
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessc1- The company announced plans to merge with its biggest rival.
- The two groups later merged to form Interdrug.
- The government decided to merge the two agencies together.
- [intransitive] merge (into something) if two things merge, or if one thing merges into another, the differences between them gradually disappear so that it is impossible to separate them
- The hills merged into the dark sky behind them.
- The figures gradually merged into the darkness.
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘immerse oneself’): from Latin mergere ‘to dip, plunge’; the legal sense is from Anglo-Norman French merger.
Idioms
merge into the background
- (of a person) to behave quietly when you are with a group of people so that they do not notice you