Consolidate

Definition of Consolidate

Con`sol´i`date

a.	1.	Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated. A gentleman [should learn to ride] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate. - Elyot.
v. t.	1.	To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm. [imp. & p. p. Consolidated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Consolidating .] 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.
v. i.	1.	To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying. In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate. - Bacon.

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