consolidate
/kənˈsɑ.lə.deɪt/ verb C1- To combine into a single unit; to group together or join. · He consolidated his luggage into a single large bag.
- To make stronger or more solid.
- With respect to debt, to pay off several debts with a single loan.
He/she/it consolidates · Past consolidated · Past participle consolidated · -ing form consolidating
Verb forms
- Base form
- consolidate
- He/she/it
- consolidates
- Past
- consolidated
- Past participle
- consolidated
- -ing form
- consolidating
From the library
“No, my dear fellow,” returned the young man, seating himself on the divan; “reassure yourself; we are tottering always, but we never fall, and I begin to believe that we shall pass into a state of immobility, and then the affairs of the Peninsula will completely consolidate us.”
After the battle of Navarino, when the Greek government was consolidated, he asked of King Otho a mining grant for that district, which was given him.
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