coalesce
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/icons/point.icon MIX, MINGLE, COMMINGLE, BLEND, MERGE, COALESCE, AMALGAMATE, FUSE mean to combine into a more or less uniform whole.
MIX may or may not imply loss of each element's identity.
e.g. mix the salad greens mix a drink
MINGLE usually suggests that the elements are still somewhat distinguishable or separately active.
e.g. fear mingled with anticipation in my mind
COMMINGLE implies a closer or more thorough mingling.
e.g. a sense of duty commingled with a fierce pride drove her
BLEND implies that the elements as such disappear in the resulting mixture.
e.g. blended several teas to create a balanced flavor
MERGE suggests a combining in which one or more elements are lost in the whole.
e.g. in his mind reality and fantasy merged
COALESCE implies an affinity in the merging elements and usually a resulting organic unity.
e.g. telling details that coalesce into a striking portrait
AMALGAMATE implies the forming of a close union without complete loss of individual identities.
e.g. refugees who were readily amalgamated into the community
FUSE stresses oneness and indissolubility of the resulting product.
e.g. a building in which modernism and classicism are fused
verb no object
come together to form one mass or whole:
｟かたく｠ 〈別々の物･考えなどが〉結合［合体］する; 〖～ with A〗 Aと結合［合体］する; 〖～ into A〗 結合［合体］してAになる
e.g. the puddles had coalesced into shallow streams
e.g. the separate details coalesce to form a single body of scientific thought.
with object combine (elements) in a mass or whole:
〈別々の物･組織など〉を結合［合体］させる
e.g. to help coalesce the community, they established an office.
ORIGIN
mid 16th century: from Latin coalescere ‘grow together’, from co- (from cum ‘with’) + alescere ‘grow up’ (from alere ‘nourish’).