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consolidate
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consolidate as in:  a consolidated loan

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The fibers and resin consolidate to make a surfboard.
consolidate = are joined together
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    I obediently consolidate the supplies I want into my pack.  (source)
    consolidate = bring together into one place
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    I'd been able to consolidate dinner, and sometimes supper, depending on how Rose was feeling, but breakfast had to be served in each kitchen.†  (source)
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    She stopped again on the first landing to consolidate a scheme; she would keep well clear of her skittish cousin, not even catch her eye—she could not afford to be drawn into a conspiracy, nor did she wish to prompt a disastrous outburst.†  (source)
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    Then, to consolidate control of Manchuria, Japan attacked China in 1937.†  (source)
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    As the first hint of daybreak brightened the eastern horizon, the rocky, terraced terrain we'd been ascending gave way to a broad gully of unconsolidated snow.†  (source)
    unconsolidated = not joined together to form one
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconsolidated means not and reverses the meaning of consolidated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    "Hey, consolidate the women and children and get them out of the compound," Mike said over the radio.†  (source)
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    Even I who have no face, who make no difference when I come in (Susan and Jinny change bodies and faces), flutter unattached, without anchorage anywhere, unconsolidated, incapable of composing any blankness or continuity or wall against which these bodies move.†  (source)
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    Then the base realignment and closure folks had decided to consolidate CID offices across all branches at Quantico, which was also home to the FBI Academy and the Marine Corps.†  (source)
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    She'd clamped Ashley in her other arm, somehow getting her away from Lewis, and hugged us both as tightly together as if she was trying to consolidate us into one person.†  (source)
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    Being a minority in both caste and class, we moved about anyway on the hem of life, struggling to consolidate our weaknesses and hang on, or to creep singly up into the major folds of the garment.†  (source)
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    Nevertheless, when Ursula realized that she had not had enough time to consolidate the vocation of Jose Arcadio, she let herself be disturbed by consternation.†  (source)
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    So part of the assumption was that people who were more economically advanced would do two things: wield more power and work to consolidate such power.†  (source)
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    But the Rush firm convinced him to consolidate everything into one hold ing company.†  (source)
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consolidate as in:  consolidated its hold on power

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The team wants to consolidate its hold on first place.
consolidate = strengthen
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    We want to consolidate our gains.
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    The mud consolidated overnight.†
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    The plane that no one wanted was a new bomber, Consolidated Aircraft's B-24 Liberator.†  (source)
    Consolidated = made stronger
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    It's all Griffen-Chase Royal Consolidated, now.†  (source)
    Consolidated = made stronger
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    The return of House Harkonnen to power generally is ascribed to adroit manipulation of the whale fur market and later consolidation with melange wealth from Arrakis.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Since coming to power in 1933, Hitler and the Nazis wasted no time in consolidating control, silencing their opponents, and beginning the campaign to reestablish Germany as a dominant world power.†  (source)
    consolidating = making stronger
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    When, later in life, Usha and I consolidated finances, she was shocked to learn that I had multiple bank accounts and small past-due balances on credit cards.†  (source)
    consolidated = made stronger
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    The drums went bang and the cymbals clanged and the financial manipulators found a champion, a legal scholar who lent respectability to their righteous dreams of merger and consolidation; buy out, take over and sell off, all for the good of the many, of course.†  (source)
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    But Ashima does not believe in crossing out names, or consolidating them into a single book.†  (source)
    consolidating = making stronger
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    The spots consolidated into a twenty-foot-tall shadowy figure looming next to the Doors.†  (source)
    consolidated = made stronger
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    Now that it was wide-awake, Easy Company prepared for a day of consolidation as the American ground troops waited out the weather.†  (source)
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    Galbatorix was busy consolidating his power, the dwarves were in retreat, the southwest was a mass of war as the humans rebelled and fought to create Surda, and we had just lost our king.†  (source)
    consolidating = making stronger
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    The marriage consolidated Sam's hundred and sixty acres with John's eighty.†  (source)
    consolidated = made stronger
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