cohere

1. (intransitive) To stick together physically, by adhesion.Examples: "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."intransitive

2. (intransitive, figurative) To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.Examples: "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."; "A system that degrades but coheres is a far better place to live than a system that completely collapses."figurativelyintransitive

3. (transitive, figurative) To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.Examples: "This division suggests that Khamenei is not playing his usual role of cohering the regime during a crisis."figurativelytransitive