reconsolidate

Merge back together

To reconsolidate is to consolidate again—to bring back together things that had been unified, then separated or weakened.

The term appears in finance when loans are restructured: She reconsolidated her student debt at a lower rate.

In neuroscience, memory reconsolidation describes how recalled memories become temporarily unstable and must be restabilized in the brain.

merge

combine

Merge, or harvesting machine

fuse · meld · coalesce · blend · synthesize · join · unite · converge · incorporate · assimilate

strengthen

reinforce

Add strength to something

stabilize · secure · shore up · buttress · entrench · reestablish · reaffirm · rebuild · restore · reassert

Opposites
unity and coherence

reconsolidatefragment

Incomplete portion of whole

scatter · disperse · disintegrate · break apart · splinter

stability and strength

reconsolidateweaken

Reduce in strength

destabilize · undermine · erode · deteriorate · crumble

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reconsolidation, reconsolidated, reconsolidating

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