consolidate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To unite into one system or whole; combine: consolidated five separate agencies into a single department.
2. v. To make strong or secure; strengthen: She consolidated her power during her first year in office.
3. v. To make firm or coherent; form into a compact mass.
4. v. To become solidified or united.
5. v. To join in a merger or union: The two firms consolidated under a new name.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make solid or firm; unite, compress, or pack together and form into a more compact mass, body, or system; make dense or coherent.
2. To bring together and unite firmly into one mass or body; cause to cohere or cleave together: as, to consolidate the forces of an army, or materials into a compound body.
3. Used specifically— in surgery, of uniting the parts of a broken bone or the lips of a wound by means of applications
4. in legislation, of combining two or more acts into one;
5. in law, of combining two or more actions, corporations, or benefices into one;
6. in finance, of uniting different sources of public revenue into a single fund, or different evidences of public debt into a single class (see consolidated). Synonyms To combine, compact, condense, compress.
7. To grow firm and compact; coalesce and become solid: as, moist clay consolidates by drying.
8. Formed into a solid mass or system.

Wiktionary

1. v. To combine into a single unit; to group together or join.
2. v. To make stronger or more solid.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. rare Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.
2. v. To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm.
3. v. To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine.
4. v. (Surg.), rare To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound.
5. v. To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. bring together into a single whole or system
2. v. make or form into a solid or hardened mass
3. v. form into a solid mass or whole
4. v. unite into one
5. v. make firm or secure; strengthen.