Other forms: consolidated, consolidating, consolidates
To consolidate is to merge scattered pieces into one stronger whole. Consolidate debts, consolidate power, consolidate the accounts.
The strength is the promise: consolidating debts puts them into one payment, which is easier to manage and often more expensive over time. In accounting, consolidated statements combine a parent and its subsidiaries. In learning, consolidation is how memory becomes durable, largely during sleep. Note that the Latin means to make solid.
1verbconsolidateTo merge scattered pieces into one stronger whole.
“The company consolidated its three small offices into one large building.”
consolidate is a merging.
Also accepted in games: combine
Latin consolidare is con plus solidus, solid. Solid, solder and soldier come from the same solidity.
Latin
consolidātus
English, today
consolidate
Built from
Latin consolidātus, from the verb consolidō, from solidus (“solid”). by surface analysis, con- + solid + -ate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA