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Consolidate \Con*sol"i*date\, 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.

He fixed and consolidated the earth. --T. Burnet.

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.

Consolidating numbers into unity. --Wordsworth.

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.