From the Latin cohaereō.

• (British) IPA: /kəʊˈhɪə/
• (America) IPA: /koʊˈhɪɚ/

cohere (coheres, present participle cohering; simple past and past participle cohered)

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

   Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force.

2. (intransitive, figurative) To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.

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

   • 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC ↗:

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

3. (transitive, figurative) To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.

• adhere
• coherence
• coherent
• cohesion
• cohesive
• inhere

• French: s'attirer, attirer, se cohérer
• German: aneinanderhaften, aneinanderkleben, binden, ein Ganzes bilden, eine Einheit bilden
• Spanish: cohesionar

• German: in sich geschlossen sein, zusammenhängen
• Spanish: ser coherente