cohere
Verb
Verb Forms: cohered, cohering, coheres
- To stick together or be logically consistent.
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- "The sushi rice grains cohere"
- cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole
- "Religion can cohere social groups"
- have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results
- "the principles by which societies cohere"
- To stick together physically, by adhesion.
- To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.
- To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.
Examples
- His strategy failed to COHERE, resulting in a scattered board and low scores.
- Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending.
- Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force.
Origin / Etymology
From the Latin cohaereō (“cohere, cling (closely) together, harmonise, be consistent (with), be in agreement with”).
Scrabble Score: 11
cohere: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcohere: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cohere: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
cohere: valid Words With Friends Word