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

  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.
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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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