CONSOLIDATE

consolidate, vb. 1. To combine or unify into one mass or body. 2. Civil procedure. To combine, through court order, two or more actions involving the same parties or issues into a single action ending in a single judgment or, sometimes, in separate judgments. [Cases: Action 54–59; Federal Civil Procedure 8. C.J.S. Actions §§ 204–219.] […]