lump together

English

Verb

lump together (third-person singular simple present lumps together, present participle lumping together, simple past and past participle lumped together)

1. To put different items or groups together and regard or treat them as one single group (either knowingly or unknowingly, and either advisedly or unadvisedly).

   Antonyms: separate, segregate, sequester; differentiate, distinguish

   Hyponyms: conflate (usually meant as unknowingly), confuse, mix up

   Near-synonyms: combine; aggregate

   In this discussion, we will lump together various breeds of spaniels, because the differences among them don't matter for our practical purposes here.

   People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, but in fact they are different creatures.

   • April 14, 2007, The Guardian, The poorest of the poor

     "Those who asked the authorities for help were a mixed bag: elderly, unemployed, sick or injured, widows, orphans, the mentally ill; all were lumped together in a "one size fits all" welfare system."

Translations

to put items together

• Catalan: posar en el mateix sac, posar al mateix sac
• Finnish: niputtaa yhteen
• French: mettre dans le même sac (fr)
• Hungarian: egy kalap alá vesz
• Italian: raggruppare (it)
• Polish: łączyć (pl) impf, połączyć (pl) pf, skupiać (pl) impf, skupić (pl) pf
• Spanish: meter en el mismo saco (es)
• Swedish: bunta ihop (sv)