MEANING
To hold together as a unified physical or conceptual whole.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- cohere into a whole
- cohere logically
On the page
The witness's account did not cohere with the recorded timeline.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- cohere
- Past tense
- cohered
- Past participle
- cohered
- Present participle
- cohering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- cohere
- Present continuous
- am/is/are cohering
- Present perfect
- have/has cohered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been cohering
- Past
- cohered
- Past continuous
- was/were cohering
- Past perfect
- had cohered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been cohering
- Future
- will cohere
- Future continuous
- will be cohering
- Future perfect
- will have cohered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been cohering
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: cohere; coheres; cohered; cohered; cohering Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: coheres.
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