1. To make a position, arrangement or achievement more secure or firmly established.
2. To combine separate things into a single or more unified arrangement.
3. To make a material denser, more compact or more firmly bound, especially by pressure or reduced void space.
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Words that belong together
- consolidate gains
- consolidate authority
On the page
The institution consolidated its gains by making the temporary procedures dependable.
The leader consolidated authority without increasing the organization’s formal size.
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Word forms
- Base
- consolidate
- Past tense
- consolidated
- Past participle
- consolidated
- Present participle
- consolidating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- consolidate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are consolidating
- Present perfect
- have/has consolidated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been consolidating
- Past
- consolidated
- Past continuous
- was/were consolidating
- Past perfect
- had consolidated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been consolidating
- Future
- will consolidate
- Future continuous
- will be consolidating
- Future perfect
- will have consolidated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been consolidating
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: consolidate; consolidates; consolidated; consolidated; consolidating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: definition, institutional analysis, scope assessment, comparison. Disciplines: academic writing, institutional analysis, conceptual explanation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: consolidates.
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