cohere
1. come or be in close contact with;
stick or hold together and resist separation (Freq. 1)
- The dress clings to her body
- The label stuck to the box
- The sushi rice grains cohere
• Syn:
cling, cleave, adhere, stick
• Derivationally related forms:
cohesive, coherent, cohesion, coherency, coherence, adherent (for: adhere), adhesion (for: adhere)
• Hypernyms:
touch, adjoin, meet, contact
• Hyponyms:
mold, conglutinate, agglutinate
• Verb Group:
adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to
• Entailment:
attach
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s PP
2. cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole
- Religion can cohere social groups
• Derivationally related forms:
cohesive, coherent
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
3. have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results
- the principles by which societies cohere
• Derivationally related forms:
coherent
• Hypernyms:
be
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
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