Beat shyness: tie and combine ideas into one (10)

I believe the answer is:

synthesise

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'combine ideas into one' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'beat shyness tie' is the wordplay.
'beat' indicates an anagram.
'shyness'+'tie'='shynesstie'
'shynesstie' is an anagram of 'SYNTHESISE'.

'and' is the link.

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