Consolidate
[kən'sɒlɪdeɪt] or [kən'sɑlɪdet]
Definition
(verb.) make firm or secure; strengthen; 'consolidate one's gains'; 'consolidate one's hold on first place'.
(verb.) make or form into a solid or hardened mass; 'consolidate fibers into boards'.
(verb.) form into a solid mass or whole; 'The mud had consolidated overnight'.
(verb.) unite into one; 'The companies consolidated'.
(verb.) bring together into a single whole or system; 'The town and county schools are being consolidated'.
Editor: Monica--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.
(v. t.) To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound.
(v. i.) To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying.
Typist: Tyler
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Condense, compact, compress, harden, solidify, make solid, make firm.[2]. Conjoin, combine, unite into one.
Edited by Jeremy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Condense, incorporate, conglutinate, cement, solder, bond, weld, thicken,strengthen, fuse
ANT:Weaken, dissipate, disunite, dismember, disintegrate, colliquate, dissolve,melt, vaporize, sublimate, attenuate, triturate, pulverize
Edited by Brent
Definition
v.t. to make solid: to form into a compact mass: to unite into one.—v.i. to grow solid or firm: to unite.—adj. made firm or solid: united.—p.adj. Consol′idated.—n. Consolidā′tion act of making or becoming solid: confirmation.—adj. Consol′idative tending to consolidate: having the quality of healing.—n. Consol′idator one who or that which consolidates.—Consolidation Acts acts of parliament which combine into one general statute several special enactments.
Checker: Mara
Examples
- Was it a systematic survey of a world he meant to consolidate into one great order, or was it a wild-goose chase? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By the same subterranean force that helped consolidate them. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Thereupon (1218) the great host of horsemen that Jengis Khan had consolidated and disciplined swept over the Pamirs and down into Turkestan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Franco-Germany he united was consolidated by his son Charlemagne. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Octavian took the hardier west, and consolidated his power; Antony had the more gorgeous east--and Cleopatra. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gradually the Ottoman princes consolidated an empire that reached from the Taurus mountains in the east to Hungary and Roumania in the west. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Western Union Telegraph Company thought this was a first-rate scheme, and bought the thing out, but afterward they consolidated, and I quit the telephone business. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He was in command of two divisions of the 16th corps, consolidated into one. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- All strata are sedimentary, consolidated at the bottom of the sea by the pressure of the water and by subterranean heat. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Editor: Milton