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.
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.
Syn. — To unite; combine; harden; compact; condense; compress.