Consolidated
[kən'sɒlɪdeɪtɪd] or [kən'sɑlə,detɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Consolidate
(p. p. & a.) Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified.
(p. p. & a.) Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus.
Checker: Selma
Examples
- 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.
- I kept this position, made many improvements, devised several stock tickers, until the Gold & Stock Telegraph Company consolidated with the Gold Indicator Company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Selma