[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

consolidate \consol"idate\, v. t. imp.  p. p.
   consolidated; p. pr.  vb. n. consolidating.
   1. to make solid; to unite or press together into a compact
      mass; to harden or make dense and firm.
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            he fixed and consolidated the earth.  --t. burnet.
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   2. to unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body;
      to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to
      consolidate the armies of the republic.
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            consolidating numbers into unity.     --wordsworth.
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   3. surg. to unite by means of applications, as the parts of
      a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. r.

   syn: to unite; combine; harden; compact; condense; compress.
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see also:
consolidated consolidating 

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