Verb

• S: (v) federalize, federalise (put under the control and authority of a federal government)
• S: (v) federate, federalize, federalise (enter into a league for a common purpose) "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) unify, unite, merge (become one) "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge"
• S: (v) consolidate (unite into one) "The companies consolidated"
• S: (v) consubstantiate (become united in substance) "thought and the object consubstantiate"
• S: (v) syncretize, syncretise (unite (beliefs or conflicting principles))
• S: (v) converge (come together so as to form a single product) "Social forces converged to bring the Fascists back to power"
• S: (v) federate, federalize, federalise (enter into a league for a common purpose) "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union"
• S: (v) coalesce (fuse or cause to grow together)
• sentence frame
• S: (v) federate, federalize, federalise (unite on a federal basis or band together as a league) "The country was federated after the civil war"