COALESCE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

2.
v.

To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce. The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations. Campbell. Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose. De Quincey.


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