Etymology Borrowed from Latin mergō (“to dip; dip in; plunge; sink down into; immerse; overwhelm”).
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To combine into a whole.
Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.
The two companies merged.
2 more examples
to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordinate vanity1791, Edmund Burke, letter to a member of the National Assembly:
Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots—Englishmen—lovers of liberty.1835 January, [Thomas De Quincey], “Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By the English Opium-eater. […]”, in William Tait, editor, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume II, number XIII, Edinburgh: William Tait […], →OCLC, page 8, column 1: