consolidated Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb unite into one
    consolidate.
    • The companies consolidated
  2. verb make firm or secure; strengthen
    consolidate.
    • consolidate one's gains
    • consolidate one's hold on first place
  3. verb bring together into a single whole or system
    consolidate.
    • The town and county schools are being consolidated
  4. verb form into a solid mass or whole
    consolidate.
    • The mud had consolidated overnight
  5. verb make or form into a solid or hardened mass
    consolidate.
    • consolidate fibers into boards
  6. adjective satellite joined together into a whole
    amalgamate; amalgamated; fused; coalesced.
    • United Industries
    • the amalgamated colleges constituted a university
    • a consolidated school
  7. adjective satellite forming a solid mass

WordNet

Con*sol"i*da`ted past participle & adjective
Definitions
  1. Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified.
    The Aggregate Fund . . . consisted of a great variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties which were [in 1715] consolidated. Rees.
    A mass of partially consolidated mud. Tyndall.
  2. (Bot.) Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus.
    Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray.

Webster 1913