[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.Synonyms: consolidate , amalgamate", "to combine, blend, or unite gradually so as to blur the individuality or individual identity of:They voted to merge the two branch offices into a single unit.Synonyms: consolidate , amalgamate"]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to become combined, united, swallowed up, or absorbed; lose identity by uniting or blending (often followed byinorinto):This stream merges into the river up ahead.Synonyms: consolidate , amalgamate", "to combine or unite into a single enterprise, organization, body, etc.:The two firms merged last year."]}]