Accumulate vs. Consolidate — What's the Difference?

To gather or cause to increase; amass

To unite into one system or whole; combine

To be the site for (a gradually increasing mass), especially as a result of disuse or neglect

To make strong or secure; strengthen

To mount or pile up; increase

To make firm or coherent; form into a compact mass.

(transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively)

To become solidified or united.

(intransitive) To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.

To join in a merger or union

To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.

(ambitransitive) To combine into a single unit; to group together or join.

Collected; accumulated.

To make stronger or more solid.

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

(finance) With respect to debt, to pay off several debts with a single loan.

To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

(obsolete) Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.

Collected; accumulated.

Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.

Get or gather together;

To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm.

Collect or gather;

To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic.

To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound.

To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying.

Unite into one;

Make firm or secure; strengthen;

Bring together into a single whole or system;

Form into a solid mass or whole;

Make or form into a solid or hardened mass;