merge
v.v. to join two or more things together to make one single thing. You often see this when companies join or when cars move into one lane on a road.
v. to combine or cause to combine to form a single entity. Often used in corporate, legal, or traffic contexts to describe the blending of distinct elements into a unified whole.
The two small companies decided to merge last year.
Drivers should stay in their lanes until the point where the two roads merge into one.
The director attempted to merge traditional hand-drawn animation with modern digital effects to create a visual style that felt both nostalgic and innovative.
Borrowed from Latin mergō (“to dip; dip in; plunge; sink down into; immerse; overwhelm”).
The verb can be used transitively (merging two things) or intransitively (two things merge). It often takes the preposition 'with' or 'into'.
The company merged to a larger firmThe company merged with a larger firmWhen joining two equal or similar things, use 'with'; use 'into' only when a smaller thing becomes part of a larger one.