cohere

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereōbor. English cohere Borrowed from Latin cohaereō (“cohere, cling (closely) together, harmonise, be consistent (with), be in agreement with”).

1. To stick together physically, by adhesion.

   “Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force.”

   “Nothing coheres the way you expect. Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender.”

2. To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.

   “Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending.”

   “That dream of beautiful Paris was not likely to cohere into substance in the presence of this misfortune.”

3. To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.

   “This division suggests that Khamenei is not playing his usual role of cohering the regime during a crisis.”