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What does "consolidate" mean?

Consolidate: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 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.
  2. 3.(Surg.) To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. [R.]
  3. 4.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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