Meaning & use
cohere
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To stick together as parts of a whole, or to be logically consistent and connected.
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The wet clay particles cohere to form a solid mass.
Her argument failed to cohere, jumping from one unrelated point to the next.
A note on using this word
"Cohere" comes from the Latin "cohaerere," meaning "to stick together," the same root that gives us "coherent" and "cohesion."
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Words with an opposite meaning
disintegrateseparate
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